[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9813-9814]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today, sadly, the House asked for a moment of 
silence for a student who was killed in Oregon. Yesterday, sadly, we 
had a moment of silence for deaths in Nevada. We didn't have a moment 
of silence for the death of a student at Seattle Pacific University in 
Washington 3 or 4 days earlier.

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  Sadly, it is becoming a regular occurrence of moments of silence for 
children who are killed in schools. We had Santa Barbara. We have had 
others. There have been 74 since Newtown.
  The silence is deafening that the House has not acted. Whether it is 
mental health, whether it is gun laws, the House needs to act and not 
continue to be silent.

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