[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT IN DEFENDING OUR NATION

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today in Emancipation Hall, the United States 
Congress and the United States Government honored the fallen heroes of 
9/11 with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony--three gold medals: one 
to the individuals who died in Shanksville, Pennsylvania; one to the 
folks who died at the Pentagon; and another to those who died at the 
World Trade Center. Their names are all in this memorial book, nearly 
3,000 innocent victims of radical Islam.
  Radical Islam and al Qaeda continues to stay in ISIS. The President 
will address the Nation tonight about the dangers ISIS presents to the 
world, to democracy, and to the United States.
  I plan to support the President in his request for us to join him 
militarily, economically, and in other measures to see that ISIS does 
not hit our homeland, attack democracy, and create a caliphate that 
will be dangerous to freedom-loving people all over the world.
  I attended the National 9/11 Memorial Museum 2 weeks ago. It is 
stirring. It made me think of the heroes, the firemen, the policemen, 
the first responders, and the people on that airplane, but it also made 
me think of the hate of al Qaeda and ISIS.
  We must respond. We are America. God bless America.

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