April 4, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 59 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                      END SUPPORT TO SAUDI ARABIA

  (Ms. GABBARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GABBARD. Madam Speaker, right now, the United States continues to 
support Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen. This support has been 
ongoing since 2015 yet has never been authorized by Congress. It must 
end now.
  U.S. support for this war has resulted in dire consequences. Just 
last week, the Saudi coalition bombed a hospital. They have bombed 
school buses, weddings, markets, funerals--tens of thousands of Yemen 
civilians killed. Millions more are in dire need of humanitarian aid, 
starving and sick, without access to food and water or basic medicine. 
This has created the worst humanitarian disaster in the world.
  We are voting later today on an important resolution to finally end 
U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. We need to put politics 
aside. Lives are at stake. We cannot afford to delay.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to recognize the urgency with 
which we must act, to vote against any attempts to delay or block this 
resolution, and to vote to pass S.J. Res. 7 today.

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