[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 22353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   WE STILL LIVE IN A DANGEROUS WORLD

  (Mr. SISISKY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SISISKY. Mr. Speaker, we have already heard about the tragic 
accident that happened to the USS Cole. I am sorry the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Mrs. Fowler) is leaving, but I would also like to pay tribute 
to her, and I do it in the vein that both she and I and many members of 
the Committee on Armed Services spent a good deal of our time trying to 
tell people what a dangerous world we live in, and sometimes it is 
pretty hard to explain to them that we still live in a dangerous world.
  I was advised early this morning by the Chief of Naval Operations and 
by the commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, both of them, of what 
happened as well as they know. The ship is just sitting there. They are 
trying to repair it as best they can. Four lives were lost. There were 
12 missing and 36 were already hospitalized. Certainly our prayers, the 
prayers of the Members of Congress, go out to the families of the 
deceased and, of course, the injured.
  What is more important is that we always remember that these people 
are serving us and this Nation and we should always pay tribute to 
them.

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