[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 158 (Thursday, September 28, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NEEDED FOR WAR IN UKRAINE

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we just had another vote on this floor 
regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine. One more time, more money 
was spent on the war.
  As bad as the money that is spent on the war, what is worse is the 
huge cost in human lives and suffering going on as long as the war 
exists.
  I think there is a shortage of serious concern as to how this war is 
going to end and a shortage of desire to end this war.
  Eventually, this war will end, but I believe the United States has 
traditionally been the world leader, and we should take our 
responsibility as world leader and try to push somebody, be it Israel, 
be it France, be it, Turkiye, into negotiating a peace.
  The longer this war goes on, the more you will have wounds between 
countries that are not going to turn around, and the more Russians and 
Ukrainians die.
  I remind this body that Ukraine has the second-lowest birthrate in 
the world. Russia has a very low birthrate as well and, even before the 
war, was suffering from a lot of its young people leaving Russia and 
coming to other countries such as the United States.
  Mr. Speaker, I plead with President Biden to take a leadership role 
and try to negotiate an end to this war.

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