[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12435]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     A COP KILLER FOR COMMENCEMENT

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, Evergreen State College is having a convicted 
cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, as their commencement speaker this year. 
This outrage is as sad as it is maddening.
  America wonders why there are shootings in schools. Well, 
irresponsible institutions making celebrities out of killers are part 
of the problem.
  In our mixed-up times, heroes are often made for the wrong reasons. 
The real hero in this case is the police officer who was shot in the 
back while doing his duty. Yet the twisted radicals in the ivory tower 
give the spotlight to his murderer while refusing the officer's widow 
time to speak.
  At this time, Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment of silence 
to protest this outrage to honor Officer Faulkner and to give sympathy 
to the real hero's wife, Maureen.

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