[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 110 (Friday, July 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4552-H4553]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DALLAS TERRORISM TRAGEDY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with deep sadness at the 
horrific spectacle that took place in Dallas, where members of the 
Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Rapid Transit System were 
singled out for terrorist activity during what had been a civil 
protest, ironically, about officers themselves. They stood in the gap--
even keeping order as their fellow officers were falling--as they were 
being protested in the march over recent tragic events that had 
happened elsewhere in our Nation. As the sniper shots rang out, and as 
they saw their brothers falling, these Dallas officers still responded 
to their internal call to duty to protect not themselves, but the 
innocent demonstrators that were also in that line of fire.
  Mr. Speaker, time and again, America's police show their commitment 
to all lives, and we know they will continue to do so. Like any 
government agency, they need accountability when they do wrong also; 
but we find that the vast and great number of contacts with police and 
all lives of Americans are for the positive and well-being of their 
security.
  We find in John 15:13:


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       Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his 
     life for his friends.

  The now five officers whose lives have been taken in the line of duty 
have shown that greater love. Our country uplifts to God these five 
lives lost, those injured or still in medical peril, their families and 
loved ones who suffer beside them, for comfort and healing. We are more 
indebted to them all than we can ever express.

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