[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12723]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               #100 DAYS

  (Ms. WILSON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. WILSON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, over 100 days have gone by, and 
the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria are still not home. The 
consequences of their absence and the lack of formal action to find the 
girls is unimaginable.
  Eleven parents of the abducted girls have died--died from the 
heartbreak, died from fighting for their girls, died from international 
silence. A father slipped into a coma, repeating his daughter's name 
until he passed away. These stories are real.
  In the meantime, Boko Haram has continued to kidnap more girls. Last 
week, they took over a whole town. This issue is real. We cannot ignore 
Boko Haram and the plight of these missing girls.
  Mr. Speaker, with a tweet and a hashtag, you are showing the Nigerian 
people, Boko Haram, the missing girls, and the world that we have not 
forgotten. We have to keep tweeting. We have to keep talking. This is 
not an African problem. This is a world problem. These are our girls, 
and we will bring them home.
  I urge you every day to join my Twitter storm and tweet: 
#joinrepwilson and #bringbackourgirls.
  Tweet, tweet, tweet. Tweet, tweet, tweet.

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