[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4526]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                IN HONOR OF FALLEN SECRET SERVICE AGENTS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Hoyer] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise as the ranking member of the House 
Appropriations Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General 
Government. I rise today to pay a solemn tribute to the six employees 
of the U.S. Secret Service, one of whom is missing and five of whom we 
know have lost their lives as a result of the heinous attack on the 
Federal building in Oklahoma City. I rose yesterday in the context of 
the Oklahoma City resolution to talk about all the Federal employees.
  I want to express my deepest sympathy to all the families, friends, 
and neighbors, but particularly, at this time to the family, friends, 
neighbors, and colleagues of the brave six Secret Service employees who 
we lost at Oklahoma City. This is a time of deep anguish and pain for 
the families of those killed, those injured, and those whose loved ones 
are still unaccounted for as they were doing the business of the people 
of the country.
  Today we remember Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alan G. Whicher, 
who served as part of the detail protecting President Clinton, and then 
was transferred to what I am sure he and his family thought was a more 
tranquil environment in Oklahoma City. He lost his life.
  Special Agent Cynthia L. Brown, appointed a special agent only a 
little over 1 year ago. She lost her life.
  Special Agent Donald R. Leonard. His career assignments included the 
Vice-Presidential Protective Division. He lost his life.
  Special Agent Mickey R. Maroney, who served with the Secret Service 
since 1971. He lost his life.
  An investigative assistant, Kathy L. Seidl, appointed to the Secret 
Service in 1985, to the Oklahoma City office; and the office manager, 
Linda McKinney, who was recovered from the rubble only yesterday. She 
was the one I said was missing, and I was in error. She has been 
located.
  I cannot say that I know the pain the people of Oklahoma City are 
experiencing. I do know very well the feeling of loss that communities 
all across this country feel for the people of Oklahoma City and for 
the loved ones of those who lost their lives.
  Mr. Speaker, God blesses America, and he does so through the services 
of so many, and particularly through the service of those who are 
fallen but not forgotten. Let us, Mr. Speaker, resolve at this moment 
to embrace the wives and the children, the mothers and the fathers, the 
sisters and the brothers, the fellow colleagues, all those who love 
them dearly, in the fellowship of love and compassion. While they have 
lost an important part of their families, we must assure them they will 
always be a part of our larger family.
  To the family and friends of those brave U.S. Secret Service agents 
and employees, my words today, of course, cannot express the sorrow for 
the loss of this Nation's best, and the gratitude for their sacrifice. 
I recall the words of President Lincoln, and I quote:

       I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine 
     which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss 
     so overwhelming, but I cannot refrain from tendering to you 
     the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the 
     Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father 
     may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you 
     only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the 
     solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a 
     sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

  President Lincoln, of course, spoke of those who lost their lives in 
the preservation of the Union; those who lost their lives in Oklahoma 
City did so as well.
  As a father, a husband, and as a child of God, my heartfelt 
sympathies go out to each of the families. May they, too, find comfort 
in their sorrow.
  Mr. Speaker, I know that every colleague joins me in expressing our 
sympathy and our sorrow, and our wishes that God will bless Alan, 
Cynthia, Donald, Mickey, Kathy, and Linda.


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