[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3469]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





         CHARLESTON IS HOSTING 2027 OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

  (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, the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly has 
graciously agreed to host its 2027 annual session in Charleston. The 
conference in America will be the first since 2005.
  The assembly of the OSCE will bring over 300 parliamentarians with 
hundreds of support staff and worldwide media from 57 countries to 
Charleston to draft, debate, and vote on resolutions. This conference 
will reinforce American leadership, with President Donald Trump 
achieving historic unity of allies in the Western Hemisphere, the 
Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
  As co-chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in 
Europe, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, I look forward to working in my 
birthplace of Charleston with Mayor William Cogswell. Charleston is 
recognized as the most British city in America.
  Mr. Speaker, God bless our troops as the global war on terrorism 
continues. Trump is reinstituting peace through strength through 
revealing war criminal Putin lies, insulting Trump and mocking Trump, 
as last night Putin murdered Ukrainian civilians with attacks, and 
Putin provides targeting intelligence to Iran to murder American 
troops.

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