[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I think every Member of the House probably 
wants to do the same thing that Mr. McCotter did and I am going to do, 
and that is to congratulate and thank the Commander in Chief, the 
President; our Armed Forces, our men and women in the military, and 
particularly SEAL Team 6 for the outstanding job that they 
accomplished. Finally, the mission is accomplished. The mission after 
9/11 was to get Osama bin Laden, and our troops did it, and they did it 
in a spectacular fashion.
  I've always been proud to be a Member of this House and to be an 
American. Never more proud than last night and today when I think about 
our soldiers who put themselves in harm's way to truly protect our 
country and to keep our freedoms, because Osama bin Laden did all he 
could to hurt our country and take away those freedoms. And he has 
taken freedoms away.
  As Mr. McCotter said, we will win, we will endure, victory will be 
ours. And I thank the men and women of the United States Armed Forces 
for the mission that they accomplished.

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