Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

Floor Speech

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Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 7217, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act.

In the face of terror and absolute unprovoked aggression, Israel is in the fight for its existence. The United States must not shirk its duty and must support Israel. Israel has the absolute right to exist.

Mr. Speaker, the world is essentially on fire. If you do not combat dictators, if you do not combat terrorists, we are shirking our duty.

Today, with the United States being Israel's greatest ally, we must support them. We already sent the Senate a support bill. We sent them a support bill for Israel. We did that barely a month after the Hamas attack on October 7.

What have Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats done? They have sat on it. Now, they want to send us a bill to try to fix their crisis at the border in the guise of support for Israel.

By the way, their crisis at the border, President Biden's crisis at the border, has cost this Nation $450 billion. That pales in comparison to the $17 billion that we are asking for Israel.

We don't need gimmicks. We don't need a bill, which hasn't even been passed by the Senate, that will allow more and more illegals to come into this country. What we need is a singular bill to support Israel, our greatest ally.

Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to support H.R. 7217.

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