[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19444]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           HURRICANE KATRINA

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, in January I traveled to Aceh, 
Puquet and Colombo and saw American foreign aid save the lives of tens 
of thousands of people ravaged by the tsunami. Two weeks ago, I was in 
Darfur, Sudan and visited refugee and IDP camps in that war-ravaged 
area and saw firsthand U.S. taxpayer funds and U.S. leadership saving 
and rebuilding the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans. But 
charity begins at home, Mr. Speaker, and we must leave no stone 
unturned in our effort to save the lives of Americans, our neighbors, 
devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
  Today's appropriation is a downpayment. It is a beginning of an 
aggressive humanitarian effort that will take months, even years, to 
rebuild the lives of those shattered people. Today we say to the 
suffering, we will do whatever it takes to save lives, to mitigate 
disease, and rebuild.

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