[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H9384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WE SHOULD NOT RECESS UNTIL WE ACT ON TERRORISM

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, domestic terrorism is becoming the 
greatest threat to our domestic tranquility. It marred the Olympics, it 
horrified us in Oklahoma City and with the World Trade Center, and it 
may have destroyed TWA Flight 800.
  That tragedy touched me deeply and personally. Three nights before 
the tragedy I spent the evening with my neighbor and friend Judith 
Connelly Delouvier, who was on that flight. Three days later she was 
dead. She will never see her two children and husband again.
  Her family deserves action now. We should not recess until we take 
legislative action on tracing explosives; we must take on the NRA; we 
must work on programmatic changes.
  Mr. Speaker, we should not recess until we act on terrorism. We 
cannot wait until September.

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