[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 30, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7057]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      COMMENDING SAMARITAN'S PURSE

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend the dedicated work 
undertaken by Samaritan's Purse, an international Christian aid group 
based in Boone, North Carolina. Specifically, I want to bring to your 
attention Dr. Kent Brantly, who has been heading up Samaritan's Purse 
work with Ebola patients in Monrovia, Liberia.
  Tragically, Dr. Brantly, along with fellow American missionary Nancy 
Writebol, has contracted the Ebola virus. Both are currently fighting 
for their lives in an isolation ward in an African hospital.
  Mr. Speaker, today, I ask my colleagues and all who hear this to join 
me in prayer for Dr. Brantly, Mrs. Writebol, and the more than 1,000 
other patients who have contracted Ebola in this outbreak, which has 
already claimed over 600 lives.
  The disease continues to spread, and Dr. Brantly, true to the 
selfless spirit of his missionary calling, has asked that his case not 
be treated differently from any other. Let us keep all those affected 
in our prayers.

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