[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 25, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE OLYMPIC STRUGGLE IN UKRAINE

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, this weekend the world watched the close of 
the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Our Nation distinguished itself.
  Right next door, in the nation of Ukraine, another Olympic struggle 
was going on as tens of thousands of young people, the future of that 
country of Ukraine, rose in peaceful assembly and achieved their goal 
of removing corrupt leadership and of offering the hope that life in 
Ukraine could be better for all.
  May I encourage the leaders of Ukraine's Parliament, the Verkovna 
Rada, to rise to this occasion, to embrace all of that great country, 
to keep the peace, to move toward democratic reform, so that the full 
potential of that remarkable place on this Earth can be reached for the 
first time in modern history.
  May Ukraine extend west and south and east and north. Her power is 
yet to be fully realized, and we congratulate those who are moving 
toward peaceful progress in that nation.
  May God go with you.

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