[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16757]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA PREVAILS NOW AND ALWAYS

  (Mr. SIMMONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SIMMONS. Mr. Speaker, last night my wife spent the evening hours 
watching television with a neighbor in Connecticut. Their grandson, my 
daughter's friend and classmate, had a new job in New York City on the 
105th floor of the World Trade Center. He was bright and energetic, a 
young man from a small town living out the American dream in the Big 
Apple. Repeated cell calls went unanswered. He is missing. We fear the 
worst.
  So what do we do? We gather here to demonstrate that the people's 
work will go on and that our democracy is strong. We gather here to say 
that terrorism is not speech, it is murder, and terrorist acts are not 
political acts, they are acts of war.
  In the name of Josh Piner and in the name of so many, many others, it 
is time to fight back. May God bless him, his family, and may God bless 
these United States.

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