[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 20775-20776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    COMMEMORATING THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF CONGRESSIONAL DECLARATION OF 
                           GENOCIDE IN DARFUR

  (Mr. CAPUANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate the third 
anniversary of the congressional declaration of genocide in Darfur. 
It's not a happy occasion; it's a sad one. And I hope we don't have to 
do this again next year or any time after that.
  I also want to thank the American people, the American taxpayers and 
the American activists in this country who have kept the pressure on 
us, on the administration, on the United Nations and on the world to 
try to stop this genocide.
  I have been to Darfur, and I will tell you that as an American 
taxpayer you can't be more proud than when you look out, and 
unfortunately these poor people have been chased out of their homes, 
and families killed and massacred, but at least when you look out, all 
of their shelters are covered with U.S. flags. Now, it's because we 
have to send all the aid to feed and take care of them. But those 
shelters are made out of the bags that carry the wheat and the rice 
that feeds them.
  The American people are doing our job. The administration is doing 
something, but not enough. The U.N. is doing way too little. And I hope 
that next year we won't have to come back and do this.

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