Nita Lowey: “Isn't it not acceptable to take a car and drive into a fence or kill someone on the street?”

Congress has the unique opportunity to support the Administration in creating a new strategy that takes a long-term approach.

I am very pleased to yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, a member of my class in the Congress.

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

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.