Sheila Jackson Lee: “Who are we if we cannot honor and celebrate those who have given their ultimate in the National Police Week? I want to…”

“Who are we if we cannot honor and celebrate those who have given their ultimate in the National Police Week? I want to say to my hometown law enforcement that we mourn Jason Michael Knox, Harold Lloyd Preston, Lemuel Bruce, and Mark C. Brown. We mourn Christopher Brown, and we mourn Johnny Ramos Sanchez. We mourn Juan Menchaca, we mourn Raymond Scholwinski, and we mourn Ernest Leal. We thank them. They are our family members, our brothers and sisters. We honor them and express our appreciation for their laying down their lives to save children and to take families out of burning buildings. We acknowledge Houston law enforcement officers who are now memorialized on the wall of honor, which I intend to introduce into this body's Record. Then I want to acknowledge the legislation that I hope my colleagues will sign, and that is, to honor those who stood tall and fought for us on January 6. This resolution will tell us their story, and that is why I stand today to tell the story of those who have sacrificed for us in this week. They are our family. We honor them, and we mourn them. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Law Enforcement Caucus and the Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, I know well the service and sacrifice of our neighbors in law enforcement, both in my hometown of Houston, Texas and here in the Capitol.…”