[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 13, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 YEMEN

  (Ms. GABBARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GABBARD. Mr. Speaker, today in Yemen, there are millions of 
Yemeni people who are on the brink of death from famine and disease, 
lack of access to food and water, basic medicine and healthcare.
  Thousands of Yemeni civilians have died in this genocidal war being 
waged by Saudi Arabia with support from the United States. They have 
been living under the looming threat of death at a moment's notice.
  This must end. Not another day can go by with U.S. support for this 
genocidal war.
  Saudi Arabia is not our ally. They spend billions of dollars 
spreading the Wahhabi-Salafist ideology that fuels terrorist 
organizations like ISIS and al-Qaida. They take the weapons that they 
get from the United States and provide them to al-Qaida.
  Enough is enough.
  Mr. Speaker, today, the Senate is taking an important vote, and I 
urge my colleagues in the Senate to hear the pleas of the Yemeni people 
who are begging for their lives. Vote today to end the unconstitutional 
U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen.

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