[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 106 (Thursday, June 17, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE MOTHER EMANUEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
                            CHURCH SHOOTING

  (Ms. MACE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. MACE. Madam Speaker, June 17, 2015, was one of the darkest days 
in Charleston, South Carolina, history. Six years ago today, nine 
church members were gunned down by a white supremacist at Mother 
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
  Today I rise to honor the lives of those lost that day. South 
Carolina's African-American community showed enormous restraint and an 
outpouring of love during this time, even to the irredeemable; and 
today we stand together, wrapped in the pride of Charleston Strong.
  So today I would like to recognize Reverend and State Senator 
Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Hurd, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 
Tywanza Sanders, Ethel Lance, Susie Jackson, Depayne Middleton Doctor, 
the Reverend Daniel Simmons, and Myra Thompson.
  You will always be remembered, and may you rest in peace.

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