Melvin Watt: “several weeks ago my colleague, the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), who represents the Congressional…”

“several weeks ago my colleague, the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), who represents the Congressional District in North Carolina which adjoins my Congressional District, and I got together and decided to try to make an effort to commemorate some of the lives of some of the people who were lost in the events of September 11. This was out of a sense of our own grief and loss, and the feeling that we should try to do something to honor the memory of these heroes. We have been trying to do 1-minute speeches on several occasions, but that did not work out too well. So we reserved this time this evening to do a more extended special order in memory of some of the heroes who died in the events of September 11. I am delighted to share this idea and effort with my colleague, the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), and I will now yield to her for her opening statement, and then we will go into it.”