Honorable Barbara Lee
U.S. Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Lee, of the Ninth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in April 1998. She serves on the Appropriations Committee. The following is excerpted from a February 16, 2012, statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. There’s no military solution in Afghanistan. We need to bring our troops home now, and we need to make sure that we leave no permanent military bases. The American people are sick and tired of the past decade of war, and they want this war to end. At a time when tens of millions…
