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




                              BUILD UNITY

  (Mr. AL GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, that which has occurred in 
Dallas, Texas, gives a sad meaning to the term ``in the line of duty.''
  In the line of duty, there are husbands who will not return home. In 
the line of duty, peace officers will not return home. Although I don't 
know the gender of all of them, I want to make sure I cover them all; 
so let me say that, in the line of duty, there are peace officers who 
will not return home.
  Those husbands and wives and children had every reason to believe 
that their loved ones would return home. They are in pain, and I want 
them to know that we suffer together. All of us in this country suffer 
whenever any one of us is taken by violence. Innocent people in this 
country are suffering. People of good will are suffering. Families are 
suffering.
  My prayer is that, out of this adversity, we can build a unity that 
will afford us the opportunity to develop the harmony necessary for the 
people of the greatest Nation in the world to live together.
  We have to span these chasms that divide us, and forgiveness is in 
order, but we must also make sure that justice is done. All who are 
associated with the dastardly deeds that occurred with reference to 
Dallas must be arrested, convicted, and must be prosecuted to the 
fullest extent that the law allows. There can be no exceptions.
  The time has come now for those who are suffering to receive our 
prayers and our sympathies, and I regret that ``in the line of duty'' 
has taken on a different meaning for them.

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