[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27852-27853]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NEW YORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE

  (Mr. WEINER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WEINER. Mr. Speaker, earlier today, in an effort to scare people 
and to frighten them, a Member of this House came to the floor and 
suggested that the idea of having the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 
in New York might jeopardize the family of the mayor of the city of New 
York.
  Now putting aside for a moment that we have an opportunity in New 
York to have New Yorkers stand before the bar of justice and serve on a 
jury to finally put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to death, and that is 
exactly the way it should be, for any Member of this House to suggest 
that somehow to support the decision to have a trial would jeopardize 
family members of the mayor of the city of New York is outrageous. Now 
that Member knows who

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he is. That Member should apologize. That Member then should be quiet.
  It is one thing to bring a baby to the floor of Congress and use it 
as a prop during the health care debate and quite another to suggest 
that the family of the mayor of the city of New York might be in danger 
because they have a different political view of how to carry out 
justice.

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