[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                   GUAM WAR CLAIMS REVIEW COMMISSION

  (Ms. BORDALLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BORDALLO. Mr. Speaker, the people of Guam endured a brutal 
occupation of public executions, beheadings, rape, beatings, forced 
labor, forced march, and internment in concentration camps during the 
occupation of Guam in World War II.
  So why are we just now dealing with war claims? Because a Federal 
Guam War Claims Review Commission appointed by Secretary Norton 
reaffirmed what the Hopkins Commission found in 1947, that the Guam war 
claims issue has not been addressed. And here is this report, over 
1,000 pages.
  Let me say this in a clear way. The people who were occupied were 
ignored by their own government. All war claims were settled by 
Congress for the American people. The commission found this has never 
been rectified for Guam. The review commission stated very clearly, Mr. 
Speaker, this is our moral obligation.
  So I urge today my colleagues to pass H.R. 1595 to fulfill this moral 
obligation to American citizens.

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