[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 148 (Thursday, September 6, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H7881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            ATROCITIES COMMITTED AGAINST CIVILIANS IN YEMEN

  (Ms. GABBARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GABBARD. Mr. Speaker, for too long, the United States has turned 
a blind eye to the atrocities being committed against civilians in 
Yemen by the Saudi-U.S. coalition.
  Just last month, the Saudi-led coalition dropped a U.S.-made bomb in 
a devastating attack on a schoolbus that killed 40 children, just the 
latest in the long string of horrors in this genocidal war that has 
killed tens of thousands of Yemeni civilians with bombs and mass 
starvation, creating the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Yet 
today, in Yemen, our military continues to wage this interventionist 
war alongside Saudi Arabia, unauthorized by Congress.
  The time for crocodile tears and baseless platitudes is over. Enough 
is enough. The U.S. must end its support for Saudi Arabia and stop 
waging interventionist wars that increase destruction, death, and 
suffering around the world, drain our resources here at home, and 
threaten our own national security.

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