Speaker Emerita Pelosi Floor Speech on the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act

Washington, D.C. – Today, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the Floor of the House of Representatives in support of the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. 

Speaker Emerita Pelosi highlighted the importance of the legislation to support the people of Ukraine against Vladimir Putin's brutality until victory is won.

Watch Speaker Emerita Pelosi's remarks here.

Read Speaker Emerita Pelosi's remarks below:
 

Speaker Emerita Pelosi.  Thank you.  I thank the gentlelady, the distinguished Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee for yielding but also for her leadership in bringing this to the Floor.  I join Mr. Turner and others in saluting the Speaker as well as our Leader, Mr. Jeffries, for making this important legislation possible. 

I associate myself with everything that's been said already about Ukraine but I want to just focus on one particular area.  Two years ago and almost two weeks ago, I led the first high-level delegation to Kyiv, and we saw firsthand the courage of the people, the danger of the Russians. 

But let me just tell you what is heartbreaking about it.  Vladimir Putin has instructed his troops to use rape, kidnapping and murder in front of family members as a weapon of war to demoralize the people of Ukraine. 

I hope that our colleagues will choose democracy and decency rather than autocracy and evil.  Because I fear that if you choose the Putin route, you will have blood on your hands.  Blood of the children, blood of their mothers, raped in front of their parents, raped in front of their children. 

I urge an 'aye' vote on this and all the other bills before us today.  Thank you, Madam Speaker.