[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 30, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4003]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
{time} 1630
WAR IN UKRAINE
(Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, in a building that conspicuously
marked its exterior with the word ``children,'' the brutal Putin bombed
without stopping this safe house in Mariupol. Obviously, it was
completely destroyed. There were 300 people dead and little children
sitting around the dead bodies of their parents.
The whole city has been leveled. The whole country has been attacked
by a brutal dictator. Of course, we know the peace talks are going on,
I encourage that. As well, I believe that the allies should continue to
give weapons and there should be some process for giving them fighter
jets.
Madam Speaker, I want to thank the Secretary of Homeland Security for
recognizing that we will have to receive Ukrainian refugees, Haitian
refugees, and, yes, refugees from the border. We are, in fact, a humane
country. We have the ability to be able to assure the world that we
will be a refuge and, as well, protect the American people.
That is what we do: we protect the American people, provide them
jobs, give them safety, but, as well, we are a refuge for the world.
Madam Speaker, I thank the Secretary for his work. Let's let Ukraine
win this, either in peace or in war.
____________________