[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4275]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, as Chairman of the House 
Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and 
Central Asia, I am grateful to recognize the third anniversary of the 
successful Abraham Accords on September 15.
  Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, this historic 
agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, 
and later Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan represents the most significant 
step toward a stable and positive Arab-Israeli relationship in modern 
history.
  It marked the first public normalization of relations between an Arab 
country and Israel since Jordan in 1994.
  In June, I led the bipartisan U.S.-Israel Partnership and Abraham 
Accords Enhancement Act of 2023, which reauthorizes key cooperative 
programs between the United States and Israel and fosters the 
utilization of existing programs to help expand the Abraham Accords.
  Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Morocco in earthquake 
recovery.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops who successfully protected 
America for 20 years as the global war on terrorism continues moving 
from the Afghanistan safe haven to America with the Biden open borders.

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