[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 12, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR TORNADO VICTIMS

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, I would ask to draw the House's 
attention to a terrible disaster that occurred in Alabama and Georgia 
on Sunday, March 3.
  At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, we had an F-4 tornado with winds 
exceeding 170 miles per hour touch down in Alabama and stay on the 
ground a mile wide. For the next 70 miles, it plowed through Alabama 
and into Georgia.
  This tornado took the lives of 23 innocent Alabamians and injured 90 
people. It destroyed, just in Alabama alone, more than 120 homes, and 
then went into Georgia and did enormous property damage.
  It is my hope that we, first of all, take note of the fact that the 
first responders in both of our States did an exemplary job in the 
search and rescue during the first 2 days following the storm trying to 
find all those who had been lost and, since then, in the recovery mode.
  The money and attention that this country and this Congress have 
invested in our first responders having the training and equipment they 
need to deal with these disasters, whether they are man-made or 
natural, was demonstrated again in this horrible disaster.
  At this time, Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a moment of silence 
for us to ask God's grace and blessings on these families as they try 
to recover from this horrible disaster.

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