[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 55 (Tuesday, April 12, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H1620-H1621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF JUSTIN AND STEPHANIE SHULTS
(Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, thank you to my colleagues, Congressman Roe
and Congressman Cooper, for joining me in remembering our constituents,
Stephanie and Justin Shults, two
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promising young lives tragically cut short in the barbaric terrorist
attacks on March 22 in Brussels, Belgium.
Stephanie Moore Shults was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky.
She was a graduate of Bryan Station High School and of Transylvania
University in Lexington. We will never forget this daughter of
Kentucky, her love of her family and her husband, and her sense of
adventure, as she lived and worked in Europe.
We will never forget the anguish felt by Stephanie and Justin's
families as they searched for their children in the aftermath of the
attack; we will never forget their grief when they learned what
happened; and we will never forget the ideology of evil and religious
intolerance that is responsible for taking these two innocent Americans
from us.
If the terrorists' objective was to undermine our country's will to
fight extremism or to compel us to surrender our liberty to their
oppressive, totalitarian vision of the world, then it has failed. The
terrorists' cowardly act only invigorates our Nation's resolve to
overcome and defeat this evil.
As we continue to pray for these families, I would like to ask
Congressman Roe and Congressman Cooper to join me and for all of my
colleagues to stand and please join us in a moment of silence and
prayer to honor these young American people.
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