[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4067]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF JUSTIN AND STEPHANIE SHULTS

  (Mr. BARR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR. Mr. Speaker, thank you to my colleagues, Congressman Roe 
and Congressman Cooper, for joining me in remembering our constituents, 
Stephanie and Justin Shults, two promising young lives tragically cut 
short in the barbaric terrorist attacks on March 22 in Brussels, 
Belgium.
  Stephanie Moore Shults was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky. 
She was a graduate of Bryan Station High School and of Transylvania 
University in Lexington. We will never forget this daughter of 
Kentucky, her love of her family and her husband, and her sense of 
adventure, as she lived and worked in Europe.
  We will never forget the anguish felt by Stephanie and Justin's 
families as they searched for their children in the aftermath of the 
attack; we will never forget their grief when they learned what 
happened; and we will never forget the ideology of evil and religious 
intolerance that is responsible for taking these two innocent Americans 
from us.
  If the terrorists' objective was to undermine our country's will to 
fight extremism or to compel us to surrender our liberty to their 
oppressive, totalitarian vision of the world, then it has failed. The 
terrorists' cowardly act only invigorates our Nation's resolve to 
overcome and defeat this evil.
  As we continue to pray for these families, I would like to ask 
Congressman Roe and Congressman Cooper to join me and for all of my 
colleagues to stand and please join us in a moment of silence and 
prayer to honor these young American people.

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