Political Quotes

“We have been dealing with an issue that relates to China's currency policies. I know that has been the pending business, but I have been wanting to address another issue for a number of days now and I am grateful for this opportunity. It is an issue that a number of people here in both parties are very concerned about. It relates to Syria. I rise to talk about the situation in Syria, which is a place of ever increasing violence, and this violence has taken the lives of more than 2,600 Syrians. I spoke a number of months ago at a hearing about a Pennsylvanian. His name is Hazem Hallek, a doctor who lives outside of Philadelphia in a suburban community. His brother Sakher lived in Syria and visited the United States for a medical conference earlier this year. Upon his return to Syria, demonstrations against the Assad regime were beginning to intensify. Sakher was not engaged in politics, nor did he want to be engaged in politics. But despite this, he went missing and was soon found dead in a ditch in a village south of the town of Aleppo. Sakher was subjected to unspeakable torture before he was killed. His visit to the United States was enough for the Assad regime to target him for death. So his brother, a constituent of mine, Hazem, has asked me to do everything I can to support democratic change in Syria and to protect civilians who continue to be hunted down by this brutal regime.…”