[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    HONORING MARK BROWN, ONE OF OUR NATION'S FALLEN LAW ENFORCEMENT 
                                OFFICERS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge adoption of House 
Resolution 31 in honor of fallen police officers and, more personally 
and specifically, in honor of a great Shoreline City police officer and 
King County sheriff's deputy, Mark Brown, who died in the line of duty 
Saturday, February 27, leaving his wife, Laurie, and Hannah and Alex, 
his children; and it is a personal matter because he was my cousin.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the Members that I am proud that my 
cousin responded to an alarm last Thursday on his motorcycle and was 
pursuing his duties and was involved in a collision and died early 
Saturday morning, and I want to tell them that it brings home that we 
have many public servants who get up and risk their lives every day, 
and their families do not know whether they are coming home.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to tell my colleagues that in 1993 I voted for a 
bill that established community police officers, and I want to tell 
them Mark Brown was the epitome of a community police officer.
  On the TV stations in Seattle I listened to tribute after tribute 
after tribute to a man in his grocery stores and in his restaurants who 
was a pillar of his community. Mark Brown, as a community police 
officer, I want his children, Hannah and Alex, to know they lost a 
father and we lost an American hero, Mark Brown.

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