[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 146 (Monday, September 8, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3883]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                      CHARLOTTE LIGHT RAIL MURDER

  (Mr. MOORE of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOORE of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise this evening with a 
heavy heart because Iryna Zarutska should still be alive.
  She fled Ukraine seeking safety and freedom. Instead, she was stabbed 
to death in a Charlotte light rail car by a 14-time criminal who should 
never have been back on the streets. In fact, this person had skipped 
bond on three occasions in the past.
  Leftist politicians and judges who have enabled this violent repeat 
offender to walk have blood on their hands.
  As the Representative of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, I am not 
going stay silent while innocent people pay the price for broken bail 
policies and soft-on-crime judges.
  That is why I am proud to co-lead Chairwoman Stefanik's Keeping 
Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act, which will make it harder for 
violent criminals to slip through the cracks and walk free without 
proper review. In fact, it may even hold Federal funds away from local 
governments that refuse to follow the law and allow these soft-on-crime 
policies.
  Folks in Charlotte and folks throughout this entire country deserve 
to feel safe. The system failed Iryna. If we don't fix it now, it will 
fail again.

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