[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 118 (Friday, July 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H6192]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    INSULTING BEHAVIOR IS UNBECOMING

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I come from the fourth largest city in 
the Nation, soon, I hope, to be the third. We take great pride in the 
number of consular offices that we have and the languages that we 
speak.
  I particularly sought to engage in international affairs by 
participating with international organizations that engage the European 
Union as well as the OSCE.
  There are individuals in Houston from France, from England, from 
Italy, from Bulgaria, and many places in and around Europe, Western and 
Eastern. So the behavior that I watched over the last couple of days 
with the assault on NATO by our Commander in Chief is, frankly, 
embarrassing.
  America stands as a bastion of democracy and freedom, and the world 
looks to us. Insults are not becoming of the American people. Insults 
to heads of state are not becoming to the American people.
  Frankly, I am against Brexit. I think it is the wrong thing to do. I 
think Europe should be a unified group of individuals supporting 
democracy and standing tall. But it is outrageous that our 
representative engaged in NATO, as well as interacting with our foreign 
leaders, would, one, have a dastardly and rude commentary in the Sun-
Times insulting our news media, such as CNN. And then, frankly, going 
on to one of our worst adversaries, a person who has poisoned people on 
foreign land, who has jailed journalists, who has shot down airplanes, 
and now Vladimir Putin will be giving our President a performance 
review. That is not the American way. Shape up. Shape up, Mr. 
President.

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