[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H5406]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TERRORIST GROUPS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a mother, as a senior 
member in the Homeland Security Committee which was created in the 
backdrop of the horrific tragedy of 9/11.
  Today, the President and America confronts a heinous group in Iraq, 
ISIS, that is beheading persons and proclaiming one religion over 
another. And again, an op-ed appears in The Wall Street Journal from 
the former Vice President, who wants to blame everything on President 
Obama whose administration has just brought into justice one of those 
who perpetrated the violence and killed our Americans at Benghazi.
  This is not an American issue in Iraq. We gave them that opportunity. 
We gave 4,000 in treasure. This is really an international issue that 
calls upon the United Nations and the nations surrounding Iraq and 
Maliki to be able to have a coalition government.
  It is the same in Nigeria with Boko Haram that is beheading persons, 
kidnapping girls. We need a coalition that faces down these terrible, 
horrific, tragic terrorists--these are thugs--and it cannot be on the 
shoulders of Americans. We have given our treasure.
  We can protect our Embassy and we should. Thank you, Mr. President. 
We can give resources, but there needs to be a strong coalition. Those 
who come back from the ghost of yesteryear and blame this 
administration should be silenced. America should stand united 
together, and others need to work together to stop this tragedy.

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