[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1056]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




UNFAIR TREATMENT OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER VINDMAN AND AMBASSADOR 
                           MARIE YOVANOVITCH

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, during his testimony before the Intel 
Committee, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman had a message for his 
father: ``Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth.''
  Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is a war hero who has earned far better 
than the treatment he received from the administration last week. But 
this behavior should not surprise us. It is part of a pattern.
  Let us remember the campaign waged against Ambassador Marie 
Yovanovitch last year. Ambassador Yovanovitch is an exemplary public 
servant who deserved our gratitude. Instead, the administration 
shamelessly attacked her and fired her to further the President's 
personal agenda.
  But I agree with the Ambassador when she wrote:

       I remain optimistic about the future. The events of the 
     past year, while deeply disturbing, show that even though our 
     institutions and our fellow citizens are being challenged in 
     ways that few of us ever expected, we will endure and we will 
     persist.

  Indeed.

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