[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      UNITED STATES AID TO TALIBAN

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, under recent comments President Biden made 
about his first year, he talked about under-promising and over-
delivering.
  Given what the year looks like, please, Mr. President, under-deliver.
  Mr. Speaker, our country has seen unprecedented crisis and record 
inflation, supply chain disruptions, price surges, gas and energy costs 
going through the roof, food supply shortages, empty shelves 
everywhere, higher prices.
  Unfortunately, the failures of Biden's first year in office isn't 
limited to just the United States alone. No, he hastily evacuated our 
troops from Afghanistan, leaving behind as many as 14,000 U.S. citizens 
and legal residents and friends, as well as billions of dollars of 
countless weapons of ours that have fallen into the hands of the 
Taliban. So over 20 years of a record of Taliban and they get all these 
weapons to use against us or our friends in the neighborhood.
  If this is not bad enough, the administration is now proposing to 
send over $300 million in foreign aid, basically, to the Taliban regime 
to do all the great things they have been doing. People in Afghanistan 
do need help, but we know the funds or food we send over there will go 
straight into the wrong hands.
  We need to have a better chain of supply to help them than what the 
Biden administration is proposing. The nonprofit rescue group known as 
Save Our Allies has been working tirelessly to rescue those left behind 
by President Biden's disaster over there. They warn that the funds and 
supplies will not go into the hands of the average Afghan but, instead, 
straight into the hands of the Taliban. We need to rethink this.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Kahele). Members are reminded to direct 
their remarks to the Chair.

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