[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1119]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CONTINUING THE CRUSADE AGAINST BOKO HARAM

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, almost 2 years ago I led a bipartisan 
delegation, the first congressional delegation, to Nigeria to assess 
and address the crisis of Boko Haram.
  At that time, it was in the immediate aftermath of the taking of the 
Chibok girls in a previous administration. Boko Haram was doing the 
kind of raiding and rabble-rousing that may have been part of burning 
villages.
  That time has now passed. And in the last 48 hours, Boko Haram poured 
gasoline on children and burned them. Boko Haram has now become a 
marauding and crusading, vile, evil, and vicious group. It takes in the 
space and areas of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
  It is important for us, as Members of Congress working with the 
administration, to call upon these nations to again collaborate and 
work together.
  They have pledged their support to ISIL. I am very glad that, in the 
course of the Homeland Security Committee, Judiciary Committee, 
Intelligence Committee, Armed Forces Committee, Boko Haram is not going 
to get away.
  There will not be boots on the ground, but we must stomp out Boko 
Haram because they are killing children all in Africa and they are 
dastardly committers of violence against civil society.

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