[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 117 (Friday, July 15, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   PASSAGE OF THE PALLONE-PAPPAS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7900 IN ORDER TO 
                  PREVENT THE SALE OF F-16S TO TURKEY

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 15, 2022

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise today in 
great thanks for this House's passage of the Pallone-Pappas amendment 
to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. I was 
pleased to co-lead this amendment alongside Representatives Pappas, 
Pallone, my fellow Hellenic Caucus Co-Chair Gus Bilirakis, and many 
others.


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  July 15, 2022, on page E741, in the second column, the following 
appeared: Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise today in 
great thanks for this House's passage of the Pallone-Pappas 
amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: Mrs. CAROLYN B. 
MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise today in great thanks 
for this House's passage of the Pallone-Pappas amendment to the 
Fiscal Year 2023 National


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  This was the right thing to do. From consistent violations of Greek 
sovereignty using their F-16 fleet, to Turkey's ongoing and illegal 
occupation on Cyprus with 40,000 soldiers, and growing authoritarian 
tendencies by President Erdogan, Turkey is not the kind of ally that I 
believe should receive such a sale.
  Further, Turkey still possesses Russian S-400 anti-air systems in 
violation of U.S. law, which led to their ejection from the F-35 
program and the imposition of CAATSA sanctions. We did not go through 
with that sale because doing so could expose sensitive technologies in 
the F-35 to this Russian system, and possibly allow Russia to easily 
counter our improvements; that risk remains even when modernizing F-
16s.
  Selling Turkey more F-16s or providing them with the technology to 
modernize their current fleet would not be in the interest of the 
United States or our allies. I am proud to have worked with 
Representative Pappas, Bilirakis and all my colleagues on this 
important amendment to prevent this sale.
  I now strongly urge the Senate to maintain this key provision in the 
final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, and take 
special note of the wide bipartisan support for this measure in the 
House. We must continue to hold Erdogan accountable for violations of 
U.S. law, human rights, and the security of our ally Greece--not reward 
him.

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