House Proceeding 03-23-09 on Mar 23rd, 2009 :: 1:16:00 to 1:28:00
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Donald M. Payne: gentlelady from wisconsin for her passion and insight. at this time i would now like to yield to the gentleman from new jersey, who is the dean of the c.b.c. as matters of foreign affairs, especially those in africa, mr. payne. pain pain thank u --

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Speech By: Donald M. Payne

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Donald M. Payne: mr. payne: thank you very much, representative fudge and commend you for taking the leadership during this hour on behalf of the congressional black caucus. we certainly have appreciated the way that your experience as a former mayor and person involved in politics in the

1:16:40 to 1:17:00( Edit History Discussion )

Donald M. Payne: state of ohio, how you've in and not as a trainee, but fully running. we know of the untimely death of your predecessor, representative stephanie tubbs jones, but we certainly appreciate you taking up the mantle and moving

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Donald M. Payne: forward. and so, i'd just like to speak briefly on several of the countries that we've mentioned. we've just heard the gentlelady from wisconsin talk about haiti. and i might just mention briefly that haiti has had a long and

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Donald M. Payne: difficult history, highlighted by prolonged poverty, political instability and jupped politically fragile state, with the lowe standards of living in the entire western hemisphere. with the assistance of the united nations stableation mission in haiti and large amounts of international aid,

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Donald M. Payne: haiti has been attempting to establish a foundation for economic development, security issues have presented the primary risk for stability while restoring economic growth, investment, employment and access to basic services have been the major and equally

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Donald M. Payne: formidable challenge to sustainable development. president preval, since assuming his second conservative term in office has emphasized the importance of rebuilding democracy, reb institutions and establishing

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Donald M. Payne: institutions for private investment, which is key to the development of any country to create jobs. the success of his government will depend largely on its ability to improve security and the condition in the country, 76% of the population live on less than $2 a day. these are conditions that make it very difficult.

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Donald M. Payne: security conditions have improved, but haitians have seen their substandard living conditions to deteriorate further with the rise in the global food prices and recently devastated by a series of hurricanes. but when people say why haiti, why shld we be concerned, number one. they're very close to our

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Donald M. Payne: number two, there's been a history of the united states' involvement in haiti. in the battle of savannah when we fought for independence of the united states of america from britain, haiti sent soldie over to fight in the battle of savannah.

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Donald M. Payne: recently i visited last year the statue that had been dedicated to haitian soldiers who fought for the independence of the united states' 13 original colonies away from great britain. also as we know, haiti became

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Donald M. Payne: the first revolt o enslaved people to defeat the colonists. and that sent a message throughout ctral and south america. as you know, haiti, in 1804, defeated the forces of the great napoleon's army.

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Donald M. Payne: and as a result of this 12-year war between france and hait france was defeated. the great wealth that france woulget from haiti, which actually was more than all 13 colonies of the united states provided for britain, the one

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Donald M. Payne: portion of the island of espanol which haiti is part of, and the other half, the dominican republic, gave more wealth to frce. when france lost haiti, it lost economics. and as a result, the know. at that time, the united states

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Donald M. Payne: was landlocked. the united states only went to the mississippi river. and it was the land that was owned by france. and because france after the long war with haiti need cash, it was nd rich and cash poor, it sold the louisiana territory for $15 million.

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Donald M. Payne: and therefore, opened up the west. the lewis and clark expedition started in st. louis as a result of the purchase of the louisiana territory. so haiti has had a tremendous impact on the united states of amer and finally about hai, part of

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Donald M. Payne: the erosion which we see was spurred along by in world war ii, u.s. being caught off from need for rubber to be grown and produced. there was a haitian said that it's going to be

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Donald M. Payne: impossible for rubber trees to grow in haiti. however, the haitian leadership wanted to help in the war effort, wanted to placate president roosevelt. so they cut down natural kinds of the's coling and tried to

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Donald M. Payne: ecology rubber trees, which would not agree, which was already known by haitian farmers, but they did it anyway and as a result, erosion started. and this was one of the areas that with the natural habitat taken down and foreign

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Donald M. Payne: intervention of other plants, haiti's erosio so i just would like to say that we need to take a look at the status of haitians in america. we need to change that situation so that people who have come to this country will definitely have an opportunity to become

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Donald M. Payne: full-fledged citizens of our country. let me just quickly talk about the liberians, another country we just heard our previous speaker talk about the fact that there was the third enforcement of departure status which expired on march 31, 2009 from liberia as a result of e war

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Donald M. Payne: with charles taylor. people got temporary protective status from liberia. when that ran out, they had the deferment enforcement depart tur and we believe that liberians will be able to have a one-year

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Donald M. Payne: extension of the d.e. demplet -- president obama's office. in 1820, $100,000 was funded by the u.s. congress that went to help to start the ha mean liberia. as you know monrovia was named

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Donald M. Payne: after president monroe and many free black men and women went to haiti. matter of fact, it was an albay sevan. there was a lawless ship he.

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Donald M. Payne: cahoot of people that were been there. they will allow liberians have and we urge anyone that is free

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Donald M. Payne: on this wednesday finally we've heard about darfur, was pleased we were able to get the genocide resolution through but i did expect more to happen from the world and i've been disappointed. i went to eastern chad and i spoke to an elderly woman who talked about what happened in her town, a pregnant woman was banned, a neighbor --

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Donald M. Payne: bayoneted, a neighbor was shot. they'tie the doors together and burn the huts and the boys would be burned to death of the all of this by al bashir, the president who had been indicted by the international criminal court and should be -- and should stand for trial. as has been mentioned, there's been a long north-south battle

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Donald M. Payne: between the natiol front and the sudanese, the sbla, the sudanese freedom south sudanese liberation movement. for 21 years, four million

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Donald M. Payne: people died and 21 days after dr. gorang wasble to get the comprehensive peace accord signed, his plane his teariously crashed and dr. dorang was killed. immediately went there and participated in the morning and

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Donald M. Payne: attended the funeral of him, his wife and children, rebecca, his wife, was very strong and continues to move forward on the question of south sudan, agreement must be upheld and darfur, the international criminal court should go

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Donald M. Payne: forward with the prosecution of al bashir. he has put out 13 nongovernmental organizations who are feeding people and bringing in food and so forth. this must not stand and he must be we could talk about the congo,

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Donald M. Payne: but i'll yield back the balance of the time so that our chairperson of tonight's special order may be able to conclude in any manner that she sees fit. let me once again thank you for taking this hour and we still have much to do.

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Donald M. Payne: the c.b.c., the conscience of the congress, will continue to