[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16956]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      STOP FOREIGN AID TO TUNISIA

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was the 3-month anniversary of the 
terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans' lives were 
tragically lost, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. To date, none 
of the terrorists have been brought to justice. In fact, in the months 
following the attack, the Tunisian Government blocked the FBI from 
interviewing the only known detained suspect in the attack, a Tunisian 
man named Ali Harzi. The FBI team has been there for 5 weeks, and they 
will not make him available.
  Since January 2011, the U.S. has given more than $320 million in 
taxpayer dollars to Tunisia. I rise to ask that all U.S. aid to Tunisia 
be immediately cut off, in light of the country's blocking the FBI's 
attempt to investigate the attack and interview Harzi.
  Why are we giving any sort of aid to a country that has proven at 
this time it is no friend or ally of the United States? Why are we not 
doing everything in our power to investigate the events in Benghazi 
that killed four Americans?
  Should Secretary Clinton fail to cut off aid to Tunisia, I will take 
legislative action to cut off the aid.

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