Sheila Jackson Lee: “I thank the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the manager, Mr. Wilson, who I have traveled with as well…”

“I thank the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the manager, Mr. Wilson, who I have traveled with as well, and I know his heart. Madam Speaker, I rise and support the legislation, S. 3522, that will provide the President with the authority to lend and lease defense articles to be able to help in the fight. Madam Speaker, but as I do that, realizing what we are standing for, I raise my button that says, ``We Stand With Ukraine,'' the very nation that is standing in the gap and fighting for the preservation of democracy around the world against the tyranny of autocracy and a one- man band and a one-man war. We have all heard of the atrocities that this violent dictator has chosen to wage against the innocent people of Ukraine, a country that wants nothing more than to love, to live, and to live under a democratic regime. But let me tell you the story of what they face every day. Mariupol, the people who are there under siege do not know whether or not the soldiers, the injured soldiers, civilians, and children will ever come out alive. Or the mother who held her 3-month-old baby with her family members in her own apartment, seeking refuge and bombed by the Russians. Or the little girl, 16 years old, who was told to take off her clothes to be raped by a Russian soldier, and to be raped again and again.…”