[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 5971-5972]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                 HONORING OUR NATION'S POLICE OFFICERS

  (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, last night, my colleague, Congressman 
Reichert, had a Special Order honoring our police officers for National 
Police Week here. And though I had wished to take part in that, I 
wasn't able to; but I certainly feel the need and desire to honor our 
police officers across this country for what they do, for being on the 
line for all of us here, and sometimes being unappreciated for that in 
a strange media setting that we have these days.
  We hearken back to 2014, when 136 officers lost their lives. Fresh on 
our mind in northern California is the loss of two of our Placer County 
officers, Michael Davis and Danny Oliver, in a terrible run-and-gun 
situation that was going on with a released inmate. These two officers 
served many years in their role for the people of Placer County and 
northern California.
  Like them, many others around the country have lost their lives in 
the line

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of duty to protect us. We need to honor them. We need to be behind them 
at all times. The thin blue line is between us and a lot of really bad 
things in this Nation. They go to work each day willing to pay the 
price, if it is necessary. We honor them.
  In the midst of everything going on these days in the news and the 
media, it is important that we always remember their sacrifice, and 
stop and thank them, and get to know them as they are trying to get to 
know the people in the community. We find out they are just human like 
us and are after the same things, as Americans.

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