[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 15687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            AUNG SAN SUU KYI

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu 
Kyi turns 64 today. Unfortunately, she will spend her birthday not in 
the company of family and friends but in Burma's notorious Insein 
Prison where 31 political prisoners have died since 1988.
  Despite her apparently poor health, Suu Kyi is being housed in Insein 
because she is standing trial for the dubious charge of permitting a 
misguided American to enter her home. Sadly, Suu Kyi has already spent 
13 of her last 19 birthdays under house arrest, and if convicted of 
these trumped-up charges by the Burmese regime, she could spend the 
next 5 birthdays in this foul prison.
  The best gift Suu Kyi can receive for her birthday is for the regime 
to display some uncommon good sense and free her and other Burmese 
prisoners of conscience. My colleagues and I are committed to standing 
with her and the people of Burma for as long as it takes for that to 
occur.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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