[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9211]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            CRISIS IN 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, the crisis in Syria is getting 
worse and worse and worse. I join with the United Nations, but I ask 
that the Arab League and NATO raise their voices to remove women and 
children and the elderly and the disabled and the sick from this 
onslaught of violence.
  And I ask the head of Russia, Mr. Putin, does he have a heart? Is he 
going to continue on the basis of ego and collaboration, determined 
that he allow the violence against the Syrian people to continue?
  I ask my Christian friends in Syria, as well, to join with the world 
of humanity to stop the violence against women and children. It is time 
now.


                          One Vote, One Person

  Mr. Speaker, I change to another topic very quickly and say: one 
vote, one person. The voter ID law doesn't allow that, and the massive 
infusion of dollars coming from places that no one knows, no one has to 
account for. Let us have the Constitution stand again. Let America have 
a 2012 election without the infusion of unnamed dollars; now, $100 
million may be coming into this election from one person. Mr. Speaker, 
the Constitution deserves respect--one vote, one person.

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