[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, quite a few speakers today have spoken 
about 9/11, and we'll have services at the Pentagon and the Capitol 
memorializing that day. It is the Pearl Harbor, the December 7, of our 
generation; and it's a day when partisan politics shouldn't take place 
and, hopefully, won't today in this Chamber or anywhere else.
  We're all Americans. We're not red Americans or blue Americans, 
Democrats or Republicans, but Americans. And I think we need to think 
about the victims. We need to think about the first responders, the 
police people and the fire people who gave their lives and rushed into 
those buildings, the emergency personnel and the sheriffs' deputies who 
protect us every day. And we need to think about the first 
counterterrorists, the passengers on Flight 93, that took control of 
that flight that was otherwise destined for either this great historic 
United States Capitol or the White House and would have caused death or 
injuries to people such as you and me, Madam Speaker, who are in this 
House today and would have been here in 2001. We need to thank the 
counterterrorists on Flight 93. Never forget them, and never forget the 
victims of 9/11.
  God bless America.

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