[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H9384-H9385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  ANTITERRORISM IS A BIPARTISAN MATTER

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, last Friday I was 
on my way to Atlanta, and I was told to go see Tom Davis who was the 
FBI agent in charge of Centennial Park because his father-in-law, Floyd 
Thaxton, works for us in our State's Bureau office. Well, needless to 
say something dramatically changed in the early hours of the morning, 
and I was unable to see Mr. Davis, who was one of the heroes and was 
injured by the bomb, but led the successful evacuation of many, many 
people.

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  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Davis is a hero to us. In his honor, I have to 
refute some of the things that are going on on this terrorism 
discussion today. I have the vote list on the terrorism bill, and many 
of the speakers today from the Democratic side voted against the only 
terrorism bill we had.
  To my knowledge, none of them offered amendments. There may have

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been a few, but it is kind of interesting to hear these people talking 
about we need a terrorist bill by the end of the week, and yet they had 
their chance. For a year and a half we debated this, and most of them 
did not offer amendments. Just about all of them voted no. I have a 
copy of the vote list, it is kind of interesting, it is almost 
rollcall, from the people we have been hearing from.
  We have to work on a bipartisan basis. We want to continue working 
with the President. We want to solve this problem. We owe it to the Tom 
Davises of the world.

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