[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                REMEMBERING STATE TROOPER JOSEPH PONDER

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, Joseph Ponder was proud to be a 
Kentucky State police trooper. ``He was eager and just absolutely loved 
his job,'' is how a State police spokesman described him.
  Ponder tragically lost his life in the line of duty this week. We are 
thinking of that 31-year-old Rineyville native today in the Senate. We 
are praying for his family and for his friends.
  I know his fellow officers in the law enforcement community feel the 
loss and so do Kentuckians whom he worked every day to protect. So I 
ask the entire Senate community to join me in honoring Trooper Ponder.

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