Nita Lowey: “The absence of swift and sure justice for the terrorists who carried out these attacks is a tragic mockery of the memory…”

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

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

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.

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