H5988 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 13, 2012 

take a minute and a half or whatever it 

was, a minute, minute and a half, to 

pay tribute to those who laid down 

their lives for their country at the 

Libya Embassy where they didn’t have 

adequate security, and where this administration enabled al Qaeda and others to take over the government. It was 

nice of him to take a minute and a half 

to pay tribute to them giving their 

lives in the middle of his campaign 

event before he went on with the celebration. 

I recall President George W. Bush. 

People here know we certainly had our 

differences, and I certainly disagreed 

with him on a number of things. But I 

had great respect for the man. He said: 

How can I go play golf when I am Commander in Chief and I have sent soldiers, our 

military, into harm’s way? It just doesn’t 

feel right for me to be out on a golf course 

having a good time when our men and 

women are in harm’s way. 

But it did look like a fun celebration 

there that President Obama was having 

in Las Vegas. 

Another article: ‘‘Libyan Official: 

U.S. At Fault in Attacks.’’ Written by 

Awr Hawkins, 12 September, 2012. 

He points out that although the head 

of Libya’s National Assembly has formally apologized for the killing of U.S. 

Ambassador Christopher Stevens, other 

higher-ranking Libyan officials refuse 

to apologize and continue to contend 

the U.S. is to blame. 

The story talks about those contentions. Hey, it was our fault. Kind of 

like the ridiculous claims that sometimes those of us who were judges or 

prosecutors heard from a guilty rape 

defendant who said, ‘‘Well, you know, 

she was asking for it.’’ Excuse me? 

That was abominable what happened 

at the Libyan Embassy. It is a tragic 

fact that this administration, against 

the will of Congress, without even asking what the will of Congress was, said, 

Well, gee, the U.N., Organization of Islamic Conference, they want us there. 

So, why not? We ought to go. That’s all 

he needed. He didn’t care what Congress thought. 

He enabled them. He used American 

bombers. And then when the American 

public obviously was upset, eventually, 

that it was taking so long—hey, hey, 

keep in mind, it’s not the U.S.; it’s 

NATO. He may not have gotten a briefing that let him know that over 60 percent of the NATO military is American 

military. 

Here’s a flashback article. I just 

think it’s important, when these terrible things are happening around the 

world, that we take a quick look at 

how we got where we are so maybe we 

don’t keep doubling down on things 

that get Americans killed and hurt our 

national security. This article by Dana 

Loesch, 12 September 2012, ‘‘Flashback: 

Obama Admin Endorsed Muslim Brotherhood,’’ it points out from a New York 

Times article even August 1 this year, 

it said: 

Leon E. Panetta, the United States Defense Secretary, said on Tuesday that President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt was ‘‘his 

own man,’’ a strong declaration of American 

support for Mr. Morsi, a former leader of the 

Muslim Brotherhood whose future course in 

Egypt remains a great unknown to the 

Obama administration. 

Well, it didn’t keep us from enabling 

him to be there. 

Another article: ‘‘Obama Admits He 

Lost Egypt As American Ally.’’ It goes 

on to talk about how the President, because of our turning our back, or stabbing a man with whom this administration had made agreements, who was 

trying to uphold the Israeli-Egyptian 

Accord that was brokered by President 

Carter—one nice thing that President 

Carter did. President Obama now admits, well, they’re not really an 

enemy, but they’re not an ally. We lost 

them as an ally because of the incompetence of this administration. 

‘‘Obama Declines Meeting With 

Netanyahu,’’ and let me just finish 

with this. Although he doesn’t have 

time for Netanyahu, apparently he has 

time to attend a Jay-Z and Beyonce 

fundraiser. They’re fabulous entertainers, I understand that. But there’s 

a country to run, there are Americans 

being killed, and it’s time somebody 

around this town picked up the responsibility and acted responsibly. I don’t 

think doing a CR is the way to do it, 

but certainly not running off to fundraisers when people are giving their 

lives for you on foreign soil is the way 

to go either. 

With that, I yield back the balance of 

my time. 

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ENROLLED BILL SIGNED 

Karen L. Haas, Clerk of the House, 

reported and found truly enrolled a bill 

of the House of the following title, 

which was thereupon signed by the 

Speaker: 

H.R. 6336. An act to direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept a statue depicting Frederick Douglass from the District 

of Columbia and to provide for the permanent display of the statue in Emancipation 

Hall of the United States Capitol. 

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ADJOURNMENT 

Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, I 

move that the House do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 9 o’clock and 2 minutes p.m.), 

the House adjourned until tomorrow, 

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Friday, September 14, 2012, at 9 a.m. 

EXPENDITURE REPORTS CONCERNING OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL 

Reports concerning the foreign currencies and U.S. dollars utilized for Official Foreign Travel during the second and 

third quarters of 2012 pursuant to Public Law 95-384 are as follows: 

REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, ROBERT KAREM, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN JUNE 10 AND JUNE 18, 2012 

Name of Member or employee 

Date 

Country 

Per diem1 Transportation Other purposes Total 

Arrival Departure Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Robert Karem ........................................................... 6 /10 6 /13 South Korea .......................................... .................... 1,050.03 .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 1,050.03 

6 /10 6 /18 Japan .................................................... .................... 2,262.29 .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 2,262.29 

Committee total ......................................... ............. ................. ............................................................... .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 3,312,32 

1 Per diem constitutes lodging and meals. 

2 If foreign currency is used, enter U.S. dollar equivalent; if U.S. currency is used, enter amount expended. 

MR. ROBERT KAREM, July 25, 2012. 

REPORT OF EXPENDITURES FOR OFFICIAL FOREIGN TRAVEL, BARRY JACKSON, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, EXPENDED BETWEEN AUG. 5 AND AUG. 13, 2012 

Name of Member or employee 

Date 

Country 

Per diem1 Transportation Other purposes Total 

Arrival Departure Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Foreign 

currency 

U.S. dollar 

equivalent 

or U.S. 

currency 2

Barry Jackson .......................................................... 8 /5 8 /8 Vietnam ................................................ .................... 812,00 .................... 3 14455 .................... .................... .................... 15267.00 

8 /8 8 /10 Cambodia ............................................. .................... 349.00 .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 349.00 

8 /10 8 /12 Burma ................................................... .................... 512.00 .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 512.00 

8 /12 8 /13 Malaysia ............................................... .................... 255.00 .................... .................... .................... .................... .................... 255.00 


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