On the recordJune 23, 2015
In just a moment, I will request a moment of silence, but before I do, I stand here with other Members of the South Carolina delegation to say our colleague Jim Clyburn, who right now is back home visiting with aggrieved families on the coast of South Carolina, and many of us, like Senator Scott and others, will be going back during this week to visit with those same families. I am joined as well by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Members of this body who have been deeply shaken by the events of this last week in Charleston, South Carolina. I rise with this group on behalf of the nine families who have been impacted back home, on behalf of the people of the First District of South Carolina, and on behalf of the people of South Carolina who have shown a whole lot of heart and a whole lot of love here over the last week. I say this because, less than a week ago, as we all know, a young man with incomprehensible malice came into the Mother Emanuel AME Church on Calhoun Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and did the unthinkable as he joined a Bible study and he gunned down nine of the members, the parishioners, there in the church. Fortunately, our story doesn't end there because the family members of the victims also did the unthinkable.…
