[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18831-18832]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      FEDERAL CONTRACTS AND SUDAN

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)

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  Ms. LEE. Madam Speaker, more than $600 million of Federal contracts 
has gone to companies whose business in Sudan may directly or 
indirectly support the Sudanese Government's campaign of genocide in 
Darfur. No one should have to worry that their tax dollars are 
supporting genocide, and that is why I am introducing the Darfur 
Accountability and Divestment Act of 2006.
  This bill is designed to wash the blood off of our Federal contracts 
and increase the financial pressure on Khartoum to end the genocide in 
Darfur. It also protects the rights of States to divest their own 
public pension funds from companies doing business in Sudan, because 
some in the other body insist on stripping that language out of the 
Darfur Peace and Accountability Act.
  Divestment played a critical role in ending apartheid in South 
Africa, and it is unconscionable that anyone in Congress would try to 
prevent people from washing the blood from their pensions and doing 
their part to end this genocide. We have a moral responsibility to use 
every tool at our disposal to end this genocide.
  I call on my colleagues to cosponsor my bill and support the growing 
national divestment movement.

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