Drew Ferguson: “Mr. Speaker, just moments ago, I arrived back here in Washington from my home State of New Jersey, where I spent the day…”

“Mr. Speaker, just moments ago, I arrived back here in Washington from my home State of New Jersey, where I spent the day visiting hospitals and Red Cross centers and, finally this evening, an interfaith prayer service in one of our communities. While we will send a very clear message with our vote tonight in this House that the unbelievable and tragic and cowardly violence of the last 24 or 36 hours will not stand, Americans in New York and New Jersey and across this Nation have already begun to send that signal through their heroism, through their acts of bravery, through their selfless giving of their time and their energy, of their blood. Americans across this Nation have already begun to send a very clear message, not only that we will go out and track down and punish the perpetrators of these heinous acts, but that we as a Nation will continue to stand in solidarity with one another, to make sure that we as a people, as human beings, will never let this stand. Not on our soil.”