Nita Lowey: “Quite simply there is no way to move all those people safely.”

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

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

We must address this situation head-on.

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.