Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Ms. PELOSI. Madam Chair, I thank the gentlewoman, the distinguished ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, for yielding, but also for her leadership in bringing this to the floor.

Madam Chair, I join Mr. Turner and others in saluting the Speaker, as well as our leader, Mr. Jeffries, for making this important legislation possible.

I associate myself with everything that has been said already about Ukraine, but I want to just focus on one particular area.

It was 2 years ago and almost 2 weeks ago that I led the first high- level delegation to Kyiv, and we saw firsthand the courage of the people, the danger of the Russians. Let me just tell you what is heartbreaking about it.

Vladimir Putin has instructed his troops to use rape, kidnapping, and murder in front of family members as a weapon of war to demoralize the people of Ukraine. I hope that our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil, because I fear that, if you choose the Putin route, you will have blood on your hands--blood of the children, blood of their mothers, raped in front of their parents, raped in front of their children.

Madam Chair, I urge an ``aye'' vote on this and all the other bills before us today.

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