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We must address this situation head-on.

I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Schrier).

MEPPA offers the one thing that has always stood between proven civil society initiatives and widespread change: the promise of sufficient peacebuilding resources.

We cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.