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On the recordFebruary 5, 2024
I believe this amendment would strengthen accountability and oversight of UNRWA and make crystal clear that we will not tolerate taxpayer dollars going to Hamas.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith emphasizes the need for oversight on UNRWA to prevent funding terrorism.

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the bill under consideration today puts politics first and does not do the hard work of addressing the extremely complicated nature of the problem at hand.

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I would remind my colleagues again over these many, many decades of trying to end U.S. taxpayer funding for UNRWA and to give it to other agencies that are not trying to create young people who quickly become terrorists.

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Thank you for that, and for your leadership on this extremely important issue where religious freedom is being trounced each and every day.

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We need a special envoy to really take this issue and focus on it, bring all the disparate elements together.

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