[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14165]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NO MONEY FOR LIBYA OR EGYPT

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I'm really disappointed today. We 
passed a CR for 6 months, and it contained language in there that was 
supposedly designed to keep Libya and Egypt from getting funds. My 
colleagues overwhelmingly voted for it. I do not criticize them for 
that.
  But I do feel very strongly in my heart that we made a mistake by 
not, in the Rules Committee, passing an amendment which would make sure 
that the money in that bill for foreign assistance did not go to Libya 
or Egypt.
  I read the document that they put out, and it does not prohibit the 
money from getting to Libya and Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood runs 
Egypt. They hate the United States, and their President has said he 
wanted to model his country after Iran.
  In Libya, they killed our Ambassador and scaled the walls. They 
burned our flag. They did it in Egypt, and they held up the al Qaeda 
flag; and we're going to give them money. It makes no sense.
  If the American people were paying attention to this right now, they 
would raise hell.

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