Political Quotes

“Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for your leadership on this issue. Thank you to Mr. Fortenberry and my friend and colleague from the State of Texas, Judge Poe. This is a response to a humanitarian crisis. Some of us had the opportunity and somewhat of a privilege to be in Haiti this past Sunday. I am here to report that there are still 1.5 to 1.6 million persons still displaced, many of them living in various camps. There is need for the continued removal of rubbish and the debris that we all saw in horror on January 12 of 2010. So this is an enormously important initiative because it addresses the question of almost 1,200 Haitian orphans which were airlifted and rescued on that fateful day. They now live in limbo, and it is important to note for my friends on the floor of the House that if they were to return, it is a country that struggles to survive. Let me applaud the Haitian Government for its concern about Haitian children and Haitian orphans and to make sure that there is no abuse and misuse of those children. But we know that many of these children, all of these children, are in loving homes here in the United States. There are families that still want to endorse the idea of adoption of Haitian children. All of them are willing to do it in the right way.…”