[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 161 (Thursday, September 17, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H4537]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          STAND UP FOR POLICE

  (Mr. GUEST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUEST. Madam Speaker, no matter your political affiliations in 
2001, there were no greater heroes than our first responders who risked 
their own lives to save their fellow citizens on 9/11. Republicans and 
Democrats thanked our first responders, while children across our 
Nation looked up to them as examples of what it meant to be heroes, to 
risk their own well-being in service to their fellow citizens.
  Now, across the Nation, we see a stark contrast to that scene from 
almost 20 years ago. Radicals now seek to defund the police. They 
threaten the men and women who risk their lives in service to our 
community, and, at times, they target our officers with violence, 
which, in the most tragic of cases, means these officers who are also 
fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters never return home to their 
family.
  I am calling on Members of Congress who have remained silent in 
recent months to now publicly oppose the violence against our law 
enforcement community so that we can put an end to the basic attacks 
against our first responders.

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