Posted on 02/23/2007 3:46:17 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Rep. Jackson-Lee: Chavez Has 'Many Friends' in Congress
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Feb. 23, 2007
A U.S. congresswoman called on the Bush administration Wednesday to reconsider its ban on selling parts for U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Venezuela, urging improved ties between the two nations.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, told reporters that she was making the first U.S. congressional visit to Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez's December re-election with the message: "I want an immediate repairing of the relations between the United States and Venezuela."
Jackson Lee described Venezuela as a friendly nation that the U.S. should cooperate with and said that the F-16 jets, which are built in Texas, was an issue of concern to her constituents in Houston.
Pledging to "personally go back and raise" the issue, she called for the U.S. Congress "to reconsider sanctions on the F-16s."
The U.S. State Department has banned arms sales to Venezuela, including parts necessary to maintain its fleet of F-16s, citing a lack of support by Chavez's government for counterterrorism efforts and its close relations with Iran and Cuba.
Venezuela has since begun receiving the first of 24 Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets as part of approximately $3 billion in military deals that Chavez has signed with Moscow.
She said her fact-finding mission to Venezuela was part of an effort by a new Democrat-controlled Congress to show that "Venezuela has many friends in this new Congress."
"We're here to re-establish friendship," she said.
I have no doubt she's correct.
Would she care to name names? It'd be nice to confirm who are in bed with leaders antagonistic to the US.
Yeah - don't let that "Death to America" rhetoric fool you.
WoW! Her district has to be a wierdo hellhole.
......and his buddy Castro has many friends in congress as well.
I thought this LOSER'S name sounded familiar.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/1571
We want names!
My granddaughter's pet rock is smarter than this woman.
F@#$ing traitor.
useful idiots
Not really a hellhole overall, but it's definitely weirdo.
There are Texans who wear cowboy hats, and there are Texans who get their nose pierced.
Hey hey now!! I live in her district (unfortunately). When they did redistricting a couple of years ago, our neighborhood switched from Culberson to Jackson-Lee. She certainly DOES NOT represent me or my immediate neighbors. It sucks!!
The socialist loving lee would do well to remember the President is responsible for foreign relations and her wanting normal relations with a dictator in bed with our enemies shows her true character.
Lol!
One of the many reasons someone elected from a large city should never get a chance to be POTUSA!
I guess she doesn't mind the smell of sulphur.
-PJ
"Wow! Her District has to be a wierdo Hellhole".
It is. It's one of the "Black" Districts carved out because of the so called Voting "Rights" Act which applies only to Southern States. Of course the Northern Politicians exempted themselves from it.
Massachusetts was thirty some percent for Bush vs Kerry, so even though Mass as a whole blows politically there are good people there and in other places like yours.
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