[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 42 (Thursday, March 5, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H2455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          END THE WAR IN IRAN

  (Ms. PRESSLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of the grieving families 
of the servicemembers killed. I rise on behalf of the little girls in 
Iran killed by bombs raining down on their schools.
  Constituents in my district are horrified to see the United States 
and Israel launch a war with Iran that has already spread to a dozen 
more countries. Parents are clutching their young sons as they remember 
stories from their grandparents about the boys sacrificed to the draft. 
They see the baby girls in Iran, their small bodies decimated, as their 
own daughters.
  Mr. Speaker, I implore my colleagues, when a nation loses care and 
concern for children, all the children, a nation becomes irredeemable. 
The children of the world are all of ours always.
  Small men wage endless wars because they are looking to profit. They 
believe their privilege and connections will shelter their own children 
from the frontline horrors of war, but our destinies are tied, Mr. 
Speaker. We rise and fall together.
  Trump has no plan of how many lives will be sacrificed before it is 
enough. We will not tolerate his callous disregard for human life. End 
this war now.

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