House Proceeding 05-17-06 on May 17th, 2006 :: 1:24:41 to 1:26:06
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: if you look at the leadership of many members of congress and go into darfur under oftentimes many violent situations, taking risks, to try to go help negotiate the peace agreements between the rebel

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Speech By: Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: groups and the sudanese government, if you look at the time and energy that many members of congress have spent working with our clergy and our young people throughout the country to try to put

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: pressure on the sudanese government, then i think maybe you would hopefully reconsider your position. this is about life and death. this is about us trying to stop the killing of now 400,000 people.

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: over two million have been displaced. we're trying to make sure this ends. i'm sorry you have that opinion, but you need to look at the record and the facts. >> host: on the democrats line, st.

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: petersburg, florida, good morning. >> caller: good morning. good morning, miss lee. thank you for your good work. i just have one question. how does this benefit your people in oakland? thank you.

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: >> guest: sir, i think not only my people in oakland, but people in the entire country and throughout world are people of conscience, people who feel that when one is killed, it diminishes all of us.

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Melvin L. Watt: i don't believe there is one single american who can say that they are happy that 400,000 people have died on the continent of africa through genocide. i don't believe there is one prn in north carolina,