[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26169-26170]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   MOURNING TAYLOR BRADFORD AND URGING CONGRESS TO PASS THE COPS BILL

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday night a football player, a young 
man named Taylor Bradford on the University of Memphis football team, 
was murdered on our campus. The football team, the City of Memphis, and 
the university mourn the passing of this fine young man.
  We play a game tonight on ESPN2 against Marshall, and there will be a 
moment of silence, a moment of silence for that young man's memory.
  But while it is a national news event because he was a football 
player, he is an example of people who have senselessly been killed in 
this country, and there are crime problems everywhere. That is why we 
need to pass the COPS bill that this House has passed and the Senate 
should pass to provide community policing and aid for local governments 
to hire more policemen, to have

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feet on the streets to protect our citizenry.
  While there are horror stories in Baghdad, there are horror stories 
in America; and we need to protect our own.
  I will remember Taylor Bradford, and I will remember all victims of 
senseless crime tonight.

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