[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16174]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         STOP ARMING TERRORISTS

  (Ms. GABBARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GABBARD. Mr. Speaker, under U.S. law, it is illegal for you or me 
or any American to provide any type of assistance to al Qaeda, ISIS, or 
other terrorist groups. If we broke this law, we would be thrown in 
jail. Yet the U.S. Government has been violating this law for years, 
directly and indirectly supporting allies and partners of groups like 
al Qaeda and ISIS with money, weapons, intelligence, and other support 
in their fight to overthrow the Syrian Government.
  A recent New York Times article confirmed that ``rebel groups'' 
supported by the U.S. ``have entered into battlefield alliances with 
the affiliate of al Qaeda in Syria, formerly known as Al Nusra.''
  The Wall Street Journal reports that rebel grounds are ``doubling 
down on their alliance'' with al Qaeda. This alliance has rendered the 
phrase ``moderate rebels'' meaningless. We must stop this madness. We 
must stop arming terrorists.
  I am introducing the Stop Arming Terrorists Act today to prohibit 
taxpayer dollars from being used to support terrorists.

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