[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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              LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, 
those are the words our forefathers put in our first defining document. 
This week in Oregon, the life of Catalina Correa, a mother, a nurse, 
whose life had been dedicated to helping others, her life was snatched 
from her by a man with an assault weapon.
  Mrs. Correa and her family have lived in my district in Oregon. I 
would like to ask those who think that their happiness depends on being 
able to buy hundreds of types of guns, guns that are designed only to 
kill, to kill people, people like Catalina Correa, I ask them to go to 
Oregon to explain to this family why their happiness is more important 
than Catalina's life. I certainly cannot explain it.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time we protect our constituents, their lives, 
their liberty, their happiness. It is time we passed this rule and 
passed this crime bill.

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