House Proceeding 06-11-09 on Jun 11th, 2009 :: 1:37:55 to 1:40:20
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1:37:54 to 1:38:14( Edit History Discussion )

John F. Tierney: not contain the r.o.z.'s, the reconstruction zones. i'm wondering how the gentleman squares that with his position. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. berman: i now yield two minutes to massachusetts who has done remarkable work on the issue of how the $12 billion given to

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Speech By: John F. Tierney

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John F. Tierney: pakistan over the past seven years -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes. mr. tierney: i thank mr. berman for allocating the time. i sometimes wonder listeni this particular substitute whether some people here wlrks it's the administration or our friends on the other side of the aisle have been sleepwalking through history. if you want to see a repeat of

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John F. Tierney: the last eight years, fine let's gets rid of the accountability. $1.5 billion for the next five years will be given on the pakistanis on the civil side of things. in the past there have been tens ever billions of dollars since their independence. we have tructure that's supposed to be a school or clinic somewhere but no teachers, no nurses, no doctors nocy thames that work because

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John F. Tierney: it's been a total lack of accountability. this substitute amendment would continue that lack ever accountability. on the security side of things, we have a situation where we had $6.2 billions in the coalition supporfunds which were a blank there. what we got in return when we

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John F. Tierney: finally doing some oversight in january of was a determination that some 40% of that had vaporized. cannot be accounted for. it was supposed to be going for things that would counterinsurgency. it disappeared somewhere. this particular bill that the substitute is trying to

1:39:42 to 1:40:02( Edit History Discussion )

John F. Tierney: undermine would put in place the accountability provisions. they are flexible enough. they simply say you have to fight those extremist that are mutual problems. you have to make sure you stop people from going over the boardtory create problems in afghanistan. you have to cooperate on nuclear nonproliferation. reasonable things. the american people have a right to expect that their representatives are going to be

1:40:03 to 1:40:20( Edit History Discussion )

John F. Tierney: accountable for the billions of dollars. we are supposed to be having a partnership and mature relationship with the pakistanis. let's get over this notion that we are going to offend their sensibilities so that they won't actually cooperate with us if we want to put some conditions to make sure that our mutual problems are addressed with the