[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 110 (Friday, July 8, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H4565-H4566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      HONOR, RESPECT, AND DIGNITY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, as a resident of Texas, representing 
parts of Houston, Texas, which includes the headquarters of the Houston 
Police Department, the Nation's heart is heavy and saddened.
  Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Dallas and to the 
families who have lost their fallen heroes.
  We respect all of those who are on the front line of allowing the 
American people to protest. We understand the young people, who are 
many colors and backgrounds, who felt compelled to protest the loss of 
life of two individuals. The law enforcement officers respected that, 
too. They understood the pain of Mr. Castile and Mr. Sterling's deaths.

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  Always in America, we have been able to come as protesters under the 
Constitution, but we recognize that law and order is the standard of 
this Nation.
  As I pray for these families, I ask the Congresspersons to rise to 
the level of leaders and leadership to seek out unity. As I just spoke 
to the head of my police department, I extended my hand to be able to 
work together with community and police to bring us together because 
that is why we are a great Nation.
  In Houston on Sunday, we will march and mourn for those fallen, but 
we will be praying for nonviolence in this Nation. What I will say, Mr. 
Speaker, is that the words that are ugly of those who want to divide 
us, I will not hear them and I will not listen to them. I will only 
embrace and bring us together.
  I will tell the young people whose faces I saw last evening in 
Washington, who were an array of mosaic colors, backgrounds, and 
religions, that we love you and we thank you for this protest of 
nonviolence. We will stand against violent gun behavior, thugs, and 
terrorists. Americans want unity, respect, and human dignity for all.

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