[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 25, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONDITIONS IN SOUTH SUDAN
(Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, this picture depicts South Sudanese women in a
food distribution line. Another desperate woman at the fore is hunched
over barbed wire.
Violence, displacement, and starvation plague the world's newest
nation, but that doesn't have to be so.
Months ago, I wrote the Obama administration urging that they invite
former President George W. Bush and the Bush Institute to engage in the
crisis, given that President Bush had forged lasting relationships with
South Sudanese leaders during the negotiation of peace in 2005.
The Obama administration, perhaps constrained by pride, has failed to
act, and the very nation the U.S. helped birth is perishing in its
infancy.
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