[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 17, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   MOMENT OF SILENCE IN TRIBUTE TO THE 12 NAVY YARD SHOOTING VICTIMS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank four former officers of the United 
States Navy--Representatives Murphy, Broun, Bridenstine, and DeSantis--
for joining me as I rise in tribute to 12 Americans, almost all Federal 
employees, who lost their lives in the service of the United States 
yesterday in a mass shooting at the Navy Yard. They were civilian 
employees doing work for the Naval Sea Systems Command. Unlike the blue 
collar workers of the old Navy Yard, Naval Sea Systems Command 
employees are skilled white collar workers, highly trained to offer 
technical support for building, buying, and manufacturing the Navy's 
ships and combat systems.
  The Navy Yard was renovated with historic deference to the old 
manufacturing workplace, and the Naval Sea Systems Command jump-started 
the development of the neighborhood that received them. The Naval Sea 
Systems Command became a good neighbor, though we knew little of the 
work done in that secure facility. We did know this: these Federal 
employees deserved our respect and our admiration because they and 
their work were vital to our Nation.
  We ask the House to join us for a moment of silence for these 12 who 
gave all they had for their country:
  Michael Arnold, Martin Bodrog, Arthur Daniels, Sylvia Frasier, 
Kathleen Gaarde, John Roger Johnson, Mary Francis Knight, Frank Kohler, 
Vishnu Pandit, Kenneth Bernard Proctor, Gerald L. Read, and Richard 
Michael Ridgell.
  The SPEAKER. The House will observe a moment of silence.

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