[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TERRORIST ATTACK IN BRUSSELS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as passengers boarded their early 
morning flights and commuters boarded the train to work, multiple bombs 
exploded in Brussels.
  Days after Belgian law enforcement captured alive ISIS terrorist 
Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspected ringleaders in the Paris attacks, 
ISIS terrorists struck again. At least 30 civilians were murdered and 
more than 200 others were injured.
  Mr. Speaker, it is obvious that the U.S.' current strategy against 
ISIS, which has allowed terrorist organizations to retain havens from 
which to plan and launch attacks for nearly 2 years, is inadequate. 
Empty words claiming progress, containment, and success are 
meaningless.
  The latest attack is not surprising. Attacks will come to our soil if 
our leaders continue to refuse to define the enemy--radical Islam. 
Jihadists have promised to bring terror to the United States. They will 
deliver on that promise if we do not use our full resources to 
eliminate them. They are at war with us. Whether we are at war with 
them is still very unclear.
  So as we mourn for the people of Belgium, the United States should 
work with all free people to eliminate this evil group, this terrorist 
group, ISIS.
  And that is just the way it is.

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