[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7594]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  OUTRAGE OVER HARASSMENT OF U.S. UNARMED CIVILIANS IN INTERNATIONAL 
                                 WATERS

  (Mr. FORBES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FORBES. Mr. Speaker, I have watched in the last several minutes 
as one by one people have come up to these podiums and beaten them and 
talked about being outraged. But 10 days ago, one of our naval vessels 
that was unarmed, full of civilians, was harassed by a Chinese aircraft 
and five Chinese vessels, and this House has not had time to express 
the outrage for what has happened with that.
  We had time to pass a bill that expressed our outrage of how they 
treated the people of Tibet, but not over unarmed American civilians. 
We had time yesterday to pass three pieces of enormous legislation 
naming post offices, but not time to express our outrage over the 
harassment of U.S. civilians who are unarmed in international waters. 
Today we will leave at 3 o'clock, but we won't have time to express our 
outrage over unarmed civilians.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope this House leadership will change its position, 
bring the resolution to the floor and send a message that we are going 
to protect and defend our people when they are in international waters.

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