Rick Larsen Quotes
And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.
United States, Congress, House. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office, 16 Feb. 2007.
The health infrastructure of Nigeria was up to the job of containing the Ebola epidemic of 2014, but the police and military, notoriously corrupt, had not joined their services to fight and risk their lives, and would not do so, thus allowing Boko Haram, a radical Islamic terrorist group to thrive in the North of the country where there was a large Muslim population. Finally, in 2015 the government moved against Boko Haram but only with partial success.
Richard Ray Larsen is the United States Representative for Washington's 2nd congressional district and a member of the Democratic Party. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2000 and was re-elected in each of the ten subsequent elections, most recently in 2020.