[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14863]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   BRING AMERICANS HOME FROM LEBANON

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it spells relief that the 10 
students from the Mickey Leland Kibbutz program have now begun to leave 
Israel and to come home. They had a wonderful experience, but they were 
in the midst of one the rising conflicts in a region that needs the 
full attention of this administration.
  My first request is for Americans to have the confidence in America, 
and for America to extend itself on behalf of those who need to be 
rescued from Lebanon. How can we watch European countries send ship 
after ship, and we are begging at the shores to be allowed to leave 
Lebanon?
  What more pain can Americans experience? And who can expect an 
American to have confidence in their government when you are asking 
them to sign a piece of paper to pay to save their lives? Did they do 
that when they were fleeing from Vietnam when North Vietnam was taking 
over South Vietnam?
  It is time to bring resolution. And the President was right: let's 
talk to Syria. Let's have Hezbollah stand down. Let's have a cease-
fire. Let's have the soldiers of Israel return.
  And, yes, they have a right to defend. But we, as a world power, have 
a right and responsibility to engage and bring about a resolution in 
the conflict in the Mid East.

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