[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          MR. CARTER, RECONSIDER YOUR PLANS TO MEET WITH HAMAS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, on behalf of my constituents in 
Tennessee's Seventh District, I rise to protest President Jimmy 
Carter's decision to meet with the leadership of Hamas, a group 
designated by the U.S. State Department as international terrorists. 
They see this as an outrageous act, something that is a disgrace to the 
men and women who have protected this Nation.
  Madam Speaker, Islamo-Fascist terrorism is the plague of our time. 
Every American official, past and present, should stand ready to help 
destroy it and to eradicate its philosophy of hate. My constituents 
feel that by meeting with Hamas, Mr. Carter a former President, 
undermines the critical goal and only goads the enemy further.
  I urge Mr. Carter to reconsider his ill-conceived plan, join the rest 
of us in our collective to eradicate Islamo-Fascist terrorism and to 
halt any plan to prop up the enemy.

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