[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16970]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    SUPPORT FOR THE TYPHOON VICTIMS

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, I join my colleagues from California, 
Guam, and CNMI in expressing our support for those devastated by 
superstorm Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan.
  We do know that the United States has already committed $20 million 
and that PACOM has mobilized. The U.N. has estimated that it may 
probably cost $300-plus million to send aid to the Philippines. We know 
that our military has shown that its humanitarian and disaster relief 
capabilities are bar none, and they showed that on March 11, 2011, when 
the Tohoku earthquake hit Japan.
  Mr. Speaker, Members of Congress must stand ready to support the 
efforts to aid the people in the Philippines. Hawaii's Filipino 
community is the largest minority that we have, and many have relatives 
from the area. Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Visayan area, which is 
where our first immigrants came from.
  We need to show the world, Mr. Speaker, that the United States is 
again the great Nation that it is because it does not turn its back on 
people in need.

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