[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          LET US DO THE JOB RIGHT ON ANTITERRORISM LEGISLATION

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of Congress from the Metro-
Atlanta area I, like the rest of the Nation, was horrified by the 
senseless bombing of innocent civilians at the Olympic Park.
  As Americans, we have had a false sense of security that we are 
somehow immune to terrorism on our soil. However, Mr. Speaker, we have 
always had terrorist acts committed against Americans in the United 
States--we just did not call it terrorism.
  Whether it was lynchings, church burnings, abortion clinic bombings, 
and now attacks by antigovernment groups, terrorism has, unfortunately, 
always been with us.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time now that we dealt with all terrorist acts 
head on. Although the House passed the President's antiterrorism bill, 
it was watered-down to the point where it is almost ineffectual.
  Now we have an opportunity to reintroduce the antiterrorism tools 
stripped from the legislation. Let us do the job right this time.

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