Nita Lowey: “This policy hurts the very people we are trying to help.”

I urge this Subcommittee to continue its longstanding support for critical people-to-people and peacebuilding programming.

I am delighted to yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the Speaker of the House.

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

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.