On the recordSeptember 22, 2010
Let me thank the gentleman for the continued good work that you do. As we conclude, you've heard the words from our leader, Representative Hoyer, you've heard Members of the Congress express themselves. I, too, would like to say that this has been a bipartisan effort. Congressman Wolf, Senator Brownback. The last hearing I had, I invited him to come to the House hearing, and he did an outstanding job. But many of us say that this issue must be resolved. And it's the historic problem of the region of Egypt and Sudan. Back at the end of the Ottoman Empire back in 1914, the British came in and jointly kind of ruled Egypt and Sudan. And finally during the Suez Canal crisis in the early 1950s, the Egyptian revolution started to move forward, and it was felt that Egypt and Sudan had to separate if Egypt was going to get its independence. Interestingly enough, Sudan was the first black nation to get independence from any of the colonial powers, back on January 1 of 1956. However, right prior to that independence, the war broke out between the north and the south. And one of the problems that we have seen today was because the British had two administrations. It had an administration for the north, and it had an administration for the south. And way back during its administration, it created the difference between the north and the south. And those problems just continued to move forward. And some of those issues remain today.
