Bill Pascrell: “Mr. Chairman, when I looked at the government's response to this particular case in July of 1998, where lawyers for the…”

“Mr. Chairman, when I looked at the government's response to this particular case in July of 1998, where lawyers for the Department of State and the Treasury advised the court that the government would file motions to quash each of the writs of attachment, we must rise against the injustice. In April of 1995, Alisa Flatow, who was then a student at Brandeis University, from my district of West Orange, New Jersey took a semester off to study at Jerusalem Seminary. She was driving on a bus, riding on a bus in the Gaza strip when a militant suicide bomber drove a van loaded with explosives into the side of the crowded vehicle. Sadly, Alisa and eight other innocent people were killed by this act of terrorism. Alisa was a woman of great character, both in life and in death. And those who received her organs can attest to the kind of generous woman she was. Her heart was transplanted to a 56-year-old man who had been waiting more than a year for one. Her liver was donated to a 23-year-old man. Her lungs, her pancreas, her kidneys to four different patients. Her corneas were donated to an eye bank. We will not forget Alisa Flatow or the struggle and trauma her family have gone through as a result of this heinous act. State-sponsored terrorism cannot be tolerated. Not just in words we speak, but in action.”