[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SUPPORTING THE PACT ACT

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the PACT Act 
that Chairman Takano and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs brought 
before us today. I was very pleased to vote for it.
  When those who go to serve our country abroad or even here at home 
come back to civilian life, they often carry with them the injuries of 
toxic exposure, such as burn pits, and we have a moral obligation for 
their care.
  Madam Speaker, to shift to a different subject, as we watch the 
slaughter in Ukraine, I would urge the Government of the United States 
and the President of the United States to mobilize our National Guard 
Partnership for Peace programs across the various States. Ohio is 
linked to Serbia and Hungary, and Illinois to Poland.
  There are ways for us as a country to use idle aircraft, like C-130 
sitting on the ground in this country, where the American people want 
to donate blankets and bandages in ways of caring for those who are 
being killed and injured, who are hungry in the Nation of Ukraine. That 
is an unrealized asset we have.
  We could do that overnight if we had the will to do it, the 
Partnership for Peace, the State Partnership for Peace, which is part 
of the U.S. Department of Defense under the National Guard Bureau.
  Madam Speaker, I ask the President to help us help Ukraine.

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