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Rep. Corrine Brown: with profound sadness and great pride, I remember Special Agent John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut. To the families…

On the recordJuly 27, 1998
with profound sadness and great pride, I remember Special Agent John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut. To the families of these two heroes, we are incredibly grateful and fortunate to have had your fathers and your husbands protecting the people's House. While at home this weekend, constituents expressed to me time and time again the trauma of these events and their profound respect for those two men and all of the men and women protecting the people's House. I offer my prayers to these two families from thousands of families throughout Florida, and, Mr. Speaker, I would like to close by reading one of my favorite scriptures: ``Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me. ``In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ``And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may also be.''
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Rep. Corrine Brown
Florida

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Honoring Special Agent John Gibson and Officer Jacob Chestnut after their tragic deaths.

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