[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 66 (Friday, April 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             END U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

  (Ms. JACOBS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACOBS of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my 
support for ending U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
  Mr. Speaker, wars are supposed to end. In the time that we have been 
in Afghanistan, I have graduated from middle school, I have graduated 
from high school, I have graduated from college and grad school, worked 
at the U.N. and the State Department, started two organizations, and 
was elected to Congress.
  I represent San Diego, a proud military community, and one that knows 
better than most the human cost of war. Ending this war does not 
invalidate those sacrifices. It recognizes them. We are indebted to the 
thousands of servicemembers who answered the call to serve, and we 
remember those who never came home. It is in their honor that we look 
to the next challenge.
  Now it is time to prioritize diplomatic and humanitarian work in 
Afghanistan, to reassert Congress' authority on war powers, and to 
focus our efforts on the security needs of the future, not the past.

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