[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17834]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            REMEMBERING 9/11

  (Mr. HOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLT. Madam Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues in 
remembering the victims of September 11, 2001. There are still no words 
that any of us can speak that will truly ease the pain and the profound 
sense of loss that families of victims feel, so many in my own 
district.
  I continue to marvel at the courage and determination of the 
surviving families, a courage and determination that made the 9/11 
Commission possible, overcoming opposition here and across town.
  We have an obligation to keep faith with those who perished and with 
the families they left behind. The best way we can do that is to take 
the 9/11 Commission recommendations seriously and act on them with 
dispatch.

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  For a new generation of Americans, the phrase ``Remember Pearl 
Harbor'' has been replaced by ``Remember 9/11.''
  Madam Speaker, let us honor those that we lost and the loved ones 
they left behind by acting expeditiously and in a bipartisan fashion to 
bring the 9/11 Commission recommendations to reality.

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