[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 82 (Thursday, May 14, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3468]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING LAW ENFORCEMENT

  (Mr. HUIZENGA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and to say thank you 
to the brave men and women in law enforcement across Michigan and our 
country.
  Every day, officers across America run toward danger on behalf of 
people they may never meet, tirelessly holding that thin blue line. 
They protect our neighborhoods, our schools, our families, and our way 
of life, all at great personal risk.
  National Police Week also serves as a solemn reminder that some who 
answer the call do not return home. This year officers from Michigan 
State Police, Oakland County, Hamtramck, Hillsdale County, Ecorse, and 
Melvindale are among those being added to the National Law Enforcement 
Officers Memorial here in Washington, D.C. Their names, their service, 
and their sacrifice deserve to be remembered by a grateful nation, as 
do those heroes from southwest Michigan who have died in the line of 
duty in past years: Berrien County Deputy Sheriff Elton Stover, 
Mattawan Police Officer Scot A. Beyerstedt, Kalamazoo Department of 
Public Safety Officer Eric Zapata, and Kalamazoo County Sheriff's 
Office Sergeant Ryan Joseph Proxmire.
  In the face of antipolice voices, this must be said clearly here in 
the people's House to the officers and their families serving today in 
southwest Michigan and across America: We thank them. To the families 
of the fallen, we honor them for their loss; we stand with them; and we 
grieve with them.

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