[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 42 (Friday, March 8, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H2590-H2591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    HONORING POLICE CHIEF KRISTEN ZIMAN ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

  (Ms. UNDERWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. UNDERWOOD. Madam Speaker, I rise today on International Women's 
Day to honor a woman who has been a pillar of strength in my community 
during a particularly difficult time.
  Last month, in Aurora, Illinois, we had five neighbors killed in a 
terrible act of gun violence. If you watched the news following that 
tragedy, you saw a woman, Chief of Police Kristen Ziman, exuding 
strength, compassion, resolve, and leadership following an event we 
never imagined would happen in our community.
  Chief Ziman leads the second biggest police department in our State 
of Illinois--no small feat considering that

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there are only 219 female chiefs in the more than 14,000 police 
departments nationwide.
  Chief Ziman's compassionate leadership and barrier-breaking approach 
to law enforcement inspires us all across the Fox Valley region. We 
truly are Aurora strong.
  Her strength and her service to our community makes us so proud, and 
I look forward to watching all the little girls in our community grow 
up knowing they can be anything they want to be, from a police chief to 
a Congresswoman, because they grew up seeing it firsthand.

  There are women like Chief Ziman lifting all of our communities all 
over the 14th District and all over our country, and I am so glad to 
celebrate them today.

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