[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5273]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   PAUSING FOR A MOMENT OF REFLECTION

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, last night I received a phone call from our 
former colleague and my good friend, Jean Schmidt of Ohio. As you know, 
Jean is an avid runner, and she has participated in many, many 
marathons.
  She was at the Boston Marathon yesterday; and 13 minutes after she 
crossed the finish line, she heard the bombs go off and saw debris and 
people running and things were falling all over the place, and called 
me to tell me that she was okay. She was waiting for her sister to 
finish when this happened.
  You know, when tragedy like this happens, you think, there, but for 
the grace of God, go I; and that was clearly the case with Jean and so 
many others.
  I just wanted to take this opportunity to pause for a moment and 
reflect on what happened in Boston yesterday, and pour my heart out to 
the injured and to those that were killed and their families, including 
an 8-year-old boy we heard about today.
  Whoever would do such a horrible thing to take innocent lives and 
cause terror amongst the population has to just be horrible people and 
people who care nothing about their fellow human beings.
  I want to take this opportunity to let the people who are injured and 
families of those who are injured and the families of those who 
perished know that we, in the Congress, are thinking about them, that 
we care about them, that we will reflect on what they went through. And 
we won't stop until those who committed the crimes will be brought to 
justice.

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