[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9942]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TRAGEDY IN CHARLESTON

  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. President, let me say, before turning to the topic at 
hand, those of us from Connecticut--especially those of us in and 
around Sandy Hook, CT--our hearts go out to the community in 
Charleston. The grief and tragedy they are working and sifting through 
today is hard for anyone to imagine. All I can say is I hope they will 
find, as we did in Newtown, CT, that an internal strength over time 
comes from unlikely spots; that friends arrive from far-off places; 
that there is a community that is much bigger than one church or one 
city that is going to wrap its arms around families and friends of the 
victims during this terrible time.

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