[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5039-5040]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, what you have seen today is the 
powerful impact of the women of the United States Congress.
  Earlier today, we joined on the steps of the United States Capitol; 
and in that area that we joined with the young girls who had escaped 
from Boko Haram, women of faith, and many other advocates, we stood 
there, arm-in-arm, listening to the stories of those young girls who 
jumped out of trucks and escaped the violence of Boko Haram and their 
very thuggish leader.
  The Boko Haram are terrorists. A year ago, they stole the ``world's 
girls.'' I led a delegation, joined by my colleagues, to Nigeria. In 
that effort, we saw the families who were crying and broken. We 
protested at the Nigerian Embassy and made a direct call to the then 
President to ask him to denounce Boko Haram.
  Today, we have been on the floor. Working with my colleagues, we have 
continuously said: bring the girls back.
  Mr. Speaker, in Nigeria, 15,000 have been killed because of Boko 
Haram. Also, 1.5 million are displaced persons, 800,000 of which are 
children.

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  I end my remarks by saying: bring the girls back. I am delighted to 
have been with Congresswoman Maloney and Congresswoman Wilson. We will 
never give up on bringing the girls back. They are the world's girls. 
They are our girls.

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