[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2829]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REMEMBERING JERROD WITHROW

  (Mr. LAMB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LAMB. Mr. Speaker, on June 11, 2021, western Pennsylvania lost 
Officer Jerrod Withrow of the Mount Lebanon police, who passed away 
after a heroic battle with cancer.
  Officer Withrow had a long and distinguished career in law 
enforcement, but one moment stood out. In October 2018, he responded to 
the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh where a mass murderer attacked 
a peaceful religious gathering with an assault rifle and killed 11 
members of our community.
  It is hard for most of us to understand the bravery and the raw 
physical courage that it takes to run toward gunfire rather than away 
from it, but that was the kind of person that Officer Withrow was. It 
was who he trained himself to be, and we thank him and honor him for 
his courage.
  On behalf of the people of western Pennsylvania and on behalf of our 
national government, I wish to extend our condolences to Officer 
Withrow's wife, Lisa; his sons: James, Brayden, and Ben; and all of his 
family.
  I am proud to remember Jerrod Withrow today in our Nation's Capitol 
and hopeful that our service here will be worthy of all those Americans 
like him who every day put their community and their country first.

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