[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF NEWTOWN TRAGEDY

  (Ms. ESTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESTY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart, to honor and 
remember the 20 innocent children and six brave educators gunned down 
at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in my district 2 years ago.
  The community of Newtown has asked us all to honor their memory with 
acts of kindness. They have asked us to honor with action. So I urge 
you to take a moment out of this busy holiday season and to volunteer 
at a local soup kitchen or to buy holiday gifts for needy families.
  Let's honor with action, with acts of kindness this week, and with 
action in Congress that makes our world safer for all our children. Our 
hearts are broken, but our spirit is not.

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