[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16827]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE CRISIS IN THE SUDAN

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor today with a sense 
of urgency to call on my colleagues to act now, before we adjourn, upon 
the crisis that is developing more and worsening every day in the 
Sudan.
  Over 1 million Sudanese have been displaced and 30,000 have been 
killed so far in Darfur, and we understand that a minimum of 1,000 
people a day are dying, being killed. Women and girls are being 
systematically raped and brutalized by thugs who have been reported to 
sing with glee as they inflict pain and humiliation beyond belief.
  I stand here today not only as a Member of the United States House of 
Representatives but as a Jew, as part of a people who are still haunted 
by the killing of 6 million during World War II, while there were 
people in the world who knew what was happening, and as a grandmother 
who does not want to face my grandchildren who say to me, Grandma, you 
were in the Congress when people were killed in a genocide in the 
Sudan, what did you do. That is a question we all have to ask 
ourselves.
  We should pass a resolution today before we leave this Congress that 
we will act, not just talk about it.

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