[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 11, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H5495-H5496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       UNITED STATES HAS SUFFERED WORST ATTACK SINCE PEARL HARBOR

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, I paraphrase a great President: Tuesday, 
September 11, 2001, is a day which will live in infamy, because on that 
day we suffered the worst attack against the United States since Pearl 
Harbor.
  Words fail us at this time. So I suggest to the American people that 
we do exactly what the President suggested last night, that we pray for 
all of the innocent victims of this terrorist act, that we express our 
gratitude to all of the firefighters, police officers and other 
emergency personnel who lost their lives and who are putting their 
lives on the line today to rescue those left in the rubble.

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  Finally, that we resolve, along with the President, to bring these 
cowards to justice. And, remember my friends, a terrorist by definition 
is a coward. It is a person who cannot get what he wants by the power 
of persuasion, and therefore resorts to killing innocent men, women, 
and children.

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  What happened yesterday, Mr. Speaker, is a basic violation of the 
fundamental principle that life is to give, not to take. Let us let the 
world know today that the forces of evil shall not prevail.

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