[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 22510-22511]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       $400,000 IN TAXPAYER MONEY PROPOSED FOR QADDAFI'S CHILDREN

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Libyan dictator Qaddafi spoke to 
the U.N. for almost 2 hours.

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  Here on the Hill on the same day, we received a State Department 
notification proposing $400,000 in U.S. taxpayer money for the 
foundations of Qaddafi's son and daughter.
  You heard that right.
  After the murders of 189 Americans aboard Pan Am flight 103 and after 
watching the bomber being welcomed home from Scotland, the 
administration is proposing donating $200,000 to Saif Qaddafi's Qaddafi 
Development Foundation. Recall that Qaddafi's son, Saif, organized the 
``welcome home'' ceremony for the Pan Am bomber.
  The administration also is proposing donating $200,000 in taxpayer 
funds to the Waettasmeno/UNDP foundation, which is run by Qaddafi's 
daughter, Ayesha. She is also conveniently the head of Libya's UNDP.
  This is part of a $2.5 million grant proposed for Libya by the Obama 
administration--U.S. funding for an oil-rich OPEC nation which is 
responsible for U.S. national security problems across Africa.

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