[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Pages 9918-9919]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TRAGEDY IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, I wish to begin by extending my deepest 
condolences and prayers to the families and loved ones of those lost in 
the heinous church shooting in Charleston,

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SC. Our hearts break for the people of Charleston and especially for 
the congregation of this house of God--a place of refuge, a place of 
peace, a place of love. The perpetrator of this hate crime must be 
found and swiftly brought to justice.
  Tragedies like this remind us that we are all interconnected, in our 
hometowns, in our country, across the planet. Whether it is our common 
home of worship or the common home of our planet, we are called every 
day to care for one another, especially those who are most in need.

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