[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11816]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                              GARY GRAHAM

  (Mr. RUSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RUSH. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to speak out against murder. In 
the past few weeks, there has been a ground swell of support for Gary 
Graham, a man placed on death row in Texas at the age of 17.
  This case and others have drawn public attention to the death penalty 
in this country and especially in Texas where Governor Bush says that 
he is confident that each of the 134 people killed under his watch were 
guilty. But we must be mindful that confidence of one man or 1,000 men 
cannot right a wrong.
  In a case where a man will die because of suspect eye witness 
testimony, Governor Bush's confidence is not enough. In a case where 
already two witnesses who said the man was not the killer, Governor 
Bush's confidence is not a enough. In a case where those two witnesses 
were not even called to the stand by the defense to testify, Governor 
Bush's confidence is not enough. Mr. Speaker, in a case where the gun 
found at the arrest was not the gun used to kill the murder victim, 
Governor Bush's confidence is not enough.
  I urge Governor Bush to remember that simply saying that one is 
confident is not enough to right a wrong.

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