Sam Brownback: “I also appreciate the first part of his speech when he talked about the Sudan, which is something I wish to address for…”

“I also appreciate the first part of his speech when he talked about the Sudan, which is something I wish to address for my colleagues. The House of Representatives has just passed 422 to 0--they rarely do things quite in that fashion--a resolution calling what is taking place in Sudan genocide--genocide, the killing of a group of people purposely by a government, by a group. I do not think we have ever done that before in the middle of a genocide as it is taking place. We have always adopted a resolution afterward, and once the genocide has occurred, we have said: That is terrible; that should not have happened; and, oh, by the way, it was genocide. They have taken a bold step, the right step, the proper step for the first time to say, while we are in the middle of this crisis, let's call it genocide now, put pressure on the international community to act and address it.”