Political Quotes

“The funding level for hurricane-ravaged Caribbean countries is totally inadequate, and this bill fails to include any funding to address the ongoing genocide in Sudan. The Bush Administration's actions on Darfur continue to be too little, too late. It took months for them to call the actions of the Khartoum Government and their militias a 'genocide' against the Darfur people. Now, that we have called the killing, raping, and torture what it is, the Republican leadership has done little to nothing to bring international support through funding and resources. I stand here today with my colleagues calling on this Administration to re-program and re-allocate money from the re-building Iraq accounts, and into the peacekeeping and humanitarian relief programs desperately needed in Darfur. Not only does this bill ignore the desperation of the victims in Sudan, but it provides woefully inadequate resources for our Caribbean neighbors suffering from the devastating blows of the hurricanes.”