[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16756]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           A RESOLUTE AMERICA

  (Mr. SCHIFF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, today our thoughts and prayers go out to the 
families of the victims. We pledge everything within our power to bring 
swift remedies to those who are still trapped, along with our thoughts 
and prayers.
  We saw yesterday also the strength and the courage of the American 
people, embodied by those firefighters and police who rushed into the 
wreckage; by those Americans, those physicians who came from around the 
region to lend their help; by the Americans still waiting in lines to 
donate blood. We saw the greatness of America yesterday.
  And to those who would perpetrate these unthinkable crimes against 
innocent men, women, and children, we say to you, we will hunt you down 
like the animals that you are. You will find no refuge, no succor, no 
shelter from the storm that will come. Others have felt democracy is 
weak, and they have found, as our enemies today will find, that there 
is nothing like the resolution of the American people.
  God bless this country.

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