[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 28, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 BORDER FUNDING TIED TO UKRAINE FUNDING

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, in Ukraine, the real battle for liberty 
grinds on. Vladimir Putin dines on caviar while Speaker Johnson and his 
majority House Conference paralyze our Nation. They refuse to bring up 
the Senate aid bill to provide Ukraine ammunition.
  The Speaker pretends Congress won't fix our southern border so we 
shouldn't arm Ukraine's freedom fighters. Fixing our southern border 
requires Congress to vote for the funds to secure it, yet the Speaker 
refuses to bring up border funding while Ukraine's soldiers face the 
third largest military in the world.
  Courageous freedom champion Alexei Navalny was tortured and 
imprisoned by Putin because he wanted a free nation. He was killed in a 
bitter, frigid, arctic prison colony.
  What an awesome, heroic son of liberty for the future of his 
countrymen and -women. He died for liberty.
  Meanwhile, this House is paralyzed. For shame. History will render 
harsh judgments against those elected officials who do not stand up for 
liberty at its time of severe testing on a continent where 500,000 
American soldiers died in the last century so that our generation could 
be free.
  The Speaker should bring up the Senate bill. Stand tall for liberty. 
Don't shrink from it.

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