[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 30, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             POWAY SHOOTING

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Madam Speaker, on Saturday, as members of 
our Jewish community in San Diego and all over the world observed the 
final day of Passover, a 19-year-old chose hate. He stormed into the 
Chabad of Poway synagogue, shooting at the congregation, leaving 
beloved community member Lori Gilbert Kaye dead and three more wounded.
  The congregation's brave rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, reflected: ``I do 
not know why I had to witness scenes of a pogrom in San Diego County 
like the ones my grandparents experienced in Poland. . . . I don't know 
why I had to see my good friend . . . hunted in her house of worship.''
  This Thursday, Madam Speaker, is Israel's Yom HaShoah, a day to 
commemorate the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews who were murdered for 
being Jewish.
  We are reminded of the hate, bigotry, and intolerance that we 
continue to face today, whether it be in San Diego, Sri Lanka, 
Christchurch, or Pittsburgh.
  Hate and violence had no place then and still do not today. We need 
to say ``never again'' and act.

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