[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 35 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2030-S2031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        THE TRAGEDY IN DUNBLANE

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I will be very brief. I actually do not 
have any prepared remarks, but I was thinking that maybe later on I 
would write up a resolution, or the leadership could write up a 
resolution, that there ought to be some words, some kind of statement 
by the United States Senate, maybe it is a message of love, to the 
people of Dunblane, Scotland.
  The slaughter of 16 children is just the ultimate nightmare. All of 
us who have children or grandchildren--or whether we have or do not 
have children or grandchildren, it does not make any difference--just 
in terms of our own humanity, I think we all can feel, and we know the 
horror of what has happened.
  So, as a Senator from Minnesota, I just wanted to send my prayers and 
my love to the people of Dunblane and to tell them that today, in the 
U.S. Senate, it is not as if they are not in our thoughts and prayers.
  Mr. President, I wish it was in my power to do more. I wish it was in 
our power to do more. But I think something should be said about it on 
the floor of the Senate, so I rise to speak, to send my love to the 
people of Scotland. I believe I speak for other Senators as well. Maybe 
later on today we can have a resolution that I know all of us will 
support.
  Sometimes when you do this it seems unimportant, but it really is 
not, because it is kind of a way in which all

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the people of the world reach out and hug one another at these moments. 
So, later on, maybe we can have a leadership resolution or some kind of 
resolution that all Senators can sign on to, and we can send that to 
the parents, to the families of Dunblane.
  I hope and pray this never happens again.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Inhofe). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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