[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4348]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         FIND THE CHIBOK 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, in the dark of night on this very day 2 
years ago, young girls at the early ages of 11 to 17 were in 
nightgowns, preparing for sleep, and were getting ready for the exams 
that would open the doors of opportunity, as they were told by their 
Nigerian parents. One daughter had rushed back to the school from a 
weekend trip because her father said: You shouldn't be home. You must 
go and take your exam.
  That night, terrorists came and rounded them up and threatened them 
and took them into the dark of the Nigerian bush in Borno State, 
upwards of Abuja. They have now been gone for 2 years, the Chibok 
girls.
  I stood alongside Frederica Wilson and Lois Frankel when we went to 
Nigeria within weeks of their kidnapping. Boko Haram, which is now 
ISIL, and ISIL, which is now Boko Haram--the most dangerous terrorist 
group in the world--will come to the shores of America if we are not 
vigilant to find them and quash them.
  We must find the Chibok girls. They deserve our constant refrain and 
study to realize that it is terrorists who took them. We must bring the 
terrorists down and find the Chibok girls to take them to their 
families.

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