[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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                        THE TRAGEDY IN PENSACOLA

  (Ms. SCHENK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SCHENK. Madam Speaker, I rise today with mixed emotions ranging 
from sadness to outrage. At 7:25 this morning in Pensacola, FL, a 
radical anti-abortion activist shot and killed two men and wounded a 
woman outside a family planning clinic. The two men were escorts who 
accompany women entering the clinic; the woman, a clinic employee.
  The alleged gunman, Paul Hill of Pensacola, is the director of the 
radical group ``Defense America of Pensacola,'' a group that advocates 
the use of force against both clinics and doctors, in other words, a 
terrorist group.
  Madam Speaker, this Congress has passed legislation guaranteeing free 
and safe access to family planning clinics. We must now prosecute these 
terrorists to the full extent of the law.
  We have made much of the so-called radical right; my colleagues, this 
is the horrible face of the radical right.
  Madam Speaker, I pray for the families of the victims, and I pray 
that this type of tragedy will not occur again.

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