John Mica: “What does it take to get the attention of the House of Representatives and this administration? How many more babies…”

“What does it take to get the attention of the House of Representatives and this administration? How many more babies, sick and elderly must we kill with our policy of sanctions on Haiti? How many more Haitian bodies must wash upon Florida's shores? I ask you, how much more misery must we, by our action and inaction, impose on the people of Haiti? We have sent our forces to Grenada, Panama, and last week we voted to spend $1.2 billion to support our military presence in Somalia. We have drawn deadlines in the sand only to see them washed away by the blood of Haitian martyrs. Every deadline has passed for action, and time and again the White House and this administration have fumbled. We continue to underwrite the United Nations and they fail to act. I ask my colleagues, has the United States, the United Nations and this Congress abandoned every standard of decency and international justice?”