[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18106-18107]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WE STAND WITH FRANCE

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, as we saw on Friday, as most Americans 
were perhaps heading home for the

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weekend, at least 129 innocent civilians were killed by terrorists in 
Paris.
  One of the attacks took place at a Paris concert hall, where a band 
from Palm Desert, California, was scheduled to play.
  Nohemi Gonzalez, an American and 23-year-old junior at California 
State University, Long Beach, was doing a semester abroad and was 
killed while having dinner with her classmates.
  Madam Speaker, our thoughts, our prayers, our hearts go out to the 
families of the victims and the people of France. We stand with the 
French people, just as they stood with us after 
9/11 and so many other times in our past, going back to our founding as 
a nation.
  This attack was a deliberate attempt to use violence and the 
destruction of innocent lives as a means of spreading a hateful 
ideology against the world. ISIS must be defeated and destroyed, not 
contained.
  Madam Speaker, we hear rhetoric coming from this administration that 
global warming is the greatest threat. Indeed. Tell that to the 
families, the victims of what happened in Paris.

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