[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      THE TRAGEDY IN OKLAHOMA CITY

  (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, following the 
tragedy in Oklahoma City, as was expected, tremendous rhetoric grew out 
of this fracas that occurred, both from the right and the left, calling 
for hearings on terrorism, international terrorism, domestic terrorism, 
paramilitary actions, all kinds of themes and theses that were 
propounded following that tragic event.
  But we must focus once and for all on what happened there and then at 
that tragic moment. This was an act of mass murder, willful, 
deliberate, intended to kill people, and succeeded in that.
  Our job, as the American people and the law enforcement and Members 
of Congress, communities together, must focus to bring those culprits 
to justice, bring them to the bar of justice, and then try them for 
murder and seek the death penalty. That is the analysis with which we 
must start in contemplating what happened in Oklahoma City on that 
fateful day.
  The death penalty, which is favored by most people in our country, 
has never been more appropriate than in this particular situation.

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