[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H3395-H3396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRIBUTE TO REX CHAO

  (Ms. MOLINARI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MOLINARI. Mr. Speaker, last week, a senseless tragedy took from 
us a great and giving friend. Rex Chao, a student at Johns Hopkins 
University and an intern in my office, was murdered in very cold blood. 
It is difficult to not think of Rex in the most alive of terms. He 
loved being here in the U.S. Capitol, immersed in Government. He was 
excited by the Republican revolution and he was driven by his love and 
confidence in our Nation.
  My office and I struggled with the most fitting tribute we could give 
our friend and decided that it should be a 1-

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minute speech. Rex would want to be in the middle of partisan debate 
and elevated discussions concerning the issues we face as Americans. 
Rex will now be recorded forever in congressional history.
  Our debates, our philosophies are important to our democracy. But it 
is the idealism of young people like Rex that will always guarantee its 
future. We are grateful he came our way.

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