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“WE CANNOT REST UNTIL CAITLAN COLEMAN AND HER FAMILY ARE FREE” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H7905 on Oct. 10, 2017.
The State Department is responsibly for international relations with a budget of more than $50 billion. Tenure at the State Dept. is increasingly tenuous and it's seen as an extension of the President's will, ambitions and flaws.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
WE CANNOT REST UNTIL CAITLAN COLEMAN AND HER FAMILY ARE FREE
(Mr. PERRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, 5 years ago today, Caitlan Coleman, an American citizen from York County, Pennsylvania, which I am privileged to represent, was taken hostage by the Haqqani Network, an offshoot of the Taliban, while hiking near the Pakistan and Afghanistan border.
Caitlan has given birth to two boys while in captivity, boys whose only life experience has been that of a hostage and surrounded by violence and fear. I speak with Caitlan's mom and dad regularly. While my heart breaks for them, as fellow Americans, as a father with children of my own, I am crestfallen and horrified for them.
Caitlan and her family are Americans. We cannot rest until they are released and returned safely to the arms of the United States. I urge my colleagues to join me in praying for the safe return of Caitlan, her husband, and her two children, but also for her family and loved ones for whom time stopped 5 years ago.
I implore the U.S. State Department to use every resource at our disposal to bring our American citizens home.
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