[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 11, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H1127-H1128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HONORING PATRIOTIC SERVICE OF SENATOR MARK KELLY

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call out a vile attack on an 
American patriot, Senator Mark Kelly of the great State of Arizona.
  Yesterday, unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who has never served this 
Nation a day in uniform, called Senator Kelly a traitor for visiting 
our Nation's ally Ukraine.
  A traitor is one who commits treason. That consists of giving aid and 
comfort to an enemy. Ukraine is not our enemy. Ukraine is our ally.
  Mark Kelly has served our Nation honorably from 1986 to 2011 in the 
United States Navy rising to the rank

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of captain, having served 39 combat missions during the Gulf war.
  During his naval career, he was awarded two Defense Superior Service 
Medals, one Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, four Air 
Medals with Combat V, two Navy Commendation Medals, one Navy 
Achievement Medal, two Southwest Asia Service Medals, one Navy 
Expeditionary Medal, two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons, a NASA 
Distinguished Service Medal, and an Overseas Service Ribbon.
  He only resigned his commission to help provide care and assistance 
to his beloved wife who had served here formerly, Congresswoman Gabby 
Giffords, following an assassination attempt on her in Tucson in 2011.
  Words and statements have meaning. Elon Musk needs to be held 
accountable for his. Today, world leaders have resoundingly stood tall 
aside the Nation of Ukraine in agreeing to a 1-month cease-fire. The 
United States has also agreed to lift the embargo on armaments and will 
be sending 1 month of armaments to Ukraine as the rest of the world 
looks to Russia to be cooperative in our effort to stop the killing in 
central Europe.

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