[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 136 (Friday, July 31, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H4204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    EL PASO COMMUNITY HEALING GARDEN

  (Ms. ESCOBAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. ESCOBAR. Mr. Speaker, Monday, August 3, will mark 1 year since El 
Paso, Texas, became the target of a killer who confessed to driving 
over 600 miles in order to stop what he called the ``Hispanic 
invasion'' with his AK-47.
  In a horrific act of domestic terrorism, he killed 23 people, injured 
22, and devastated all of us. This wasn't only another tragic outcome 
of America's gun violence epidemic, but also a result of America's hate 
epidemic fueled by racism and xenophobia as well as rhetoric coming 
from the most powerful leaders in the land.
  One year later, we still don't have laws that make us safer from gun 
violence, and we still face a reckoning on hate.
  My community continues to confront hate with love and to honor the 
victims and survivors. In that spirit, it is my privilege today to 
introduce legislation that honors the victims of the August 3, 2019, 
attack and designates the El Paso Community Healing Garden as a 
national memorial.

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