House Proceeding on Sep 9th, 2009 :: 4:16:45 to 4:18:25
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Gary L. Ackerman: to close, we'll wait on the speaker if she chooses to close as well. ms. ros-lehtinen: you need an additional minute? how much time do we have, mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida has two minutes remaing. has three minutes remaining. mr. ackerman: mr. speaker, i

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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york's recognized for two minutes. mr. ackerman: mr. speaker, the day after that horrific event, i was back in new york. i went to the piers where the people were waiting to claim bodies and hear of missing loved ones. there was a gentleman before

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Gary L. Ackerman: this huge wall where people had posted pictures of relatives that were missing, and there was one gentleman standing there, was close to midnight, all by himself in traditional orthodox jewish gash with a long black -- garb with a long black coat standing in front of a picture that looked remarkably like him and he just

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Gary L. Ackerman: stood there stoned face and i just went over and stood next to him as one of the femen called him to my attention. and he said without turning away from the picture that he was looking at on the wall of the missing person, he said, that was my brother. he's gone. he called me moments before the building collapsed. he said he knew what was happening but he would not leave his workplace.

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Gary L. Ackerman: he worked in a station next to a young man from puerto rico who was sitting in a wheelchair and who was frightened. and he said, my brother told me i will not let him stay here to die alone. and they were holding hands when his brother hung up the phone. that was the kind of bravery we saw from americans, all kinds

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Gary L. Ackerman: of americans on that faithful day. let us rember them and the