[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 11397-11398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   URGING RESPECT FOR THE 9/11 WIDOWS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, across the Potomac in Arlington today, we 
are breaking ground for the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon. Our Nation 
is rightfully honoring the victims of those heinous acts.
  It has also been 1 week since I called upon my Republican colleagues 
to reject Ann Coulter's vicious attacks on the widows of 9/11.
  Not a single Republican elected official has stepped forward to 
reject her hate. So I have to conclude they are comfortable with her as 
their spokesman. Your silence is deafening. Apparently it is okay to 
exploit 9/11 to shore up your own sagging poll numbers or make a quick 
buck.
  So rather than see 9/11 as a moment to unite America, Ann Coulter and 
her followers have chosen to divide and demonize fellow Americans. I am 
always amazed that the one casualty the American people would accept on 
9/11 would be partisanship, and that is the one casualty you are not 
willing to give.
  Ms. Coulter is threatened by the 9/11 widows. They threaten her 
simplistic world by daring to ask questions. Mr. Speaker, the 9/11 
widows have courageously stood up to demand that we

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never forget the horror of September 11.
  All Americans who lost loved ones should be honored, as we are doing 
in Arlington today, not denigrated simply because they do not fit your 
simplistic world view.

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