Announcement By the Acting Chair

Floor Speech

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Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I would just like to remind people that whether you are White, Black, Brown, we all bleed the same, so to have this completely divisive ideology being pushed, to have Members from across the aisle making it about race when some of these Members have not even served, it is completely to me, not only a foreign ideology, but I would like to remind people when you are getting shot at, okay, when my husband was shot in Afghanistan, do you think he was sitting there asking what color the person that was evacuating him was?

Do you think he was sitting there wondering about diversity, equity, and inclusion? No. The only thing he cared about was making sure that someone who was evacuating him knew how to do their job. That is what the military needs to be focusing on.

So to have it about race just goes to show that maybe more Members, maybe more Members across the aisle need to be serving in our military because that is not something that we focus on. What we focus on is mission readiness. That is what it is all about.

I don't care if you guys think that I am racist. I am a minority woman. Maybe I am the wrong color of minority for you, but I am a minority woman.

I support this for those reasons because I have lost friends.

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Mrs. LUNA. Mr. Chair, I couldn't help but pull out my pocket Constitution, and I couldn't seem to find anywhere in here where it says we need to fund programs for humanitarian aid for women and children in Afghanistan. I just wanted to point that out.

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