[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27400-27401]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      ACKNOWLEDGING AMERICA'S PAIN

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, I want to complement the President for 
traveling to southern California to comfort the families and the 
communities of the San Diego area.

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  While Americans in southern California suffer great losses and begin 
the struggle to rebuild, it is essential that our President which he 
did demonstrate the commitment of his administration and the entire 
Nation to helping them legal.
  An article in the Chicago Tribune discusses today, families across 
the country are working to rebuild their lives after burying a son or 
daughter who died in combat. The President rightly goes to California 
to comfort a family that has lost a home. Why is he not coming to 
Illinois to comfort a family who has lost a son?
  The President in San Diego lifted the spirits of an entire community 
as they reassembled their lives. That same compassion needs to be 
shared with the parents who are burying their children. They deserve to 
know that the growing criticism of the situation in Iraq will not keep 
the President from acknowledging their individual losses.
  This is all the more important on today when the President signs the 
$87 billion to help Iraq rebuild their nation. We cannot pass by the 
families who have lost and have personal pain. They are all part of 
America's family.

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