; Whereas an estimated 2,300,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by the floods, many of which were swept away, demolished, or rendered uninhabitable, leaving the housing sector with financial losses estimated to be upwards of $5,600,000,000; Whereas the total cost of damage to transportation infrastructure is estimated to be $281,000,000, 13,000 kilometers of roads were damaged or destroyed, and about 3,100 kilometers of in-service railway tracks were damaged, around 40 percent of the country’s total in-service railways; Whereas damage to fiber optic transmission lines, feeder cables, and transmission towers threatens the performance of Pakistan’s telecommunications infrastructure; Whereas the floods have resulted in approximately 1,200,000 livestock deaths, and damaged 9,400,000 acres of agricultural land around the country, including a 35-percent loss of this year’s Kharif season cash crops including rice and cotton, which are among Pakistan’s major exports; Whereas the flooding’s economic implications to the country will long outlast the persistent standing water, which the World Bank evaluated and estimated that 2.2 percent of the fiscal year 2022 gross domestic product was lost as a direct impact of the floods; Whereas the Pakistani government’s 2022 Post-Disaster Needs Assessment suggested that the flooding will cause the country’s poverty rate to increase by up to 4 percentage points, pushing up to 9,000,000 people newly into poverty; Whereas Pakistan is a longtime ally and strategic partner of the United States linked by strong diplomatic relations since Pakistan’s independence in 1947; Whereas, from September 4 through 6, 2022, a congressional delegation visited the areas in Pakistan that were most severely plagued by the floods