Kay Bailey Hutchison: “No one in America can have read a newspaper or seen a television report about the plight of women in Afghanistan, and…”

“No one in America can have read a newspaper or seen a television report about the plight of women in Afghanistan, and children, without being horrified. All 13 women of the Senate, led by myself and Senator Mikulski, are introducing a bill today that would authorize the President to give education, health care benefits, and other help to the women and children of Afghanistan, and to those in refugee camps, at the first opportunity we possibly can. Women are not able to be educated under the Taliban. Women are not able to get health care under the Taliban. They are not able to work.”