[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8762]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 SYRIA

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we can do better. As we work 
to ensure the tranquility of this great land and the opportunity for 
those who desire and deserve jobs, I frankly, think, it is likewise a 
devastating disaster, a crisis, that the world has not risen to stop 
the bloodshed in Syria.
  I realize that we are not ready to engage in war, and I say that we 
do not have to. Syrian Americans are just pleading for the world to 
intervene, for Dr. Assad to step down, for the cease-fire to take 
place, and for the killing of women and children to stop.
  I join with the administration to ask for Dr. Assad to be removed. I 
ask the Arab League, I ask the surrounding neighbors to stand up 
against this increasing violence. To the Syrian Americans that I have 
stood with in Houston, I stand with you until Dr. Assad is removed and 
the violence is stopped.
  The United Nations has moved towards a resolution of peace, and 
Russia and China must stop standing in the way and watching bloodshed 
pour. Remember, children are dying.
  Dr. Assad in Syria must leave and peace must come.

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