H5848 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 11, 2012 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012. 

Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, 

Speaker, House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: This is to notify you 

formally, pursuant to Rule VIII of the Rules 

of the House of Representatives that I have 

been served with a subpoena for documents 

issued by the Fairfax County Circuit Court 

in connection with civil litigation currently 

pending before that court. 

After consultation with the Office of General Counsel, I have determined that compliance with the subpoena is inconsistent with 

the privileges and precedents of the House. 

Sincerely, 

DANIEL F. SCANDLING, 

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Chief of Staff. 

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COMMUNICATION FROM THE HONORABLE FRANK R. WOLF, MEMBER OF CONGRESS 

The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following communication from the Honorable FRANK R. 

WOLF, Member of Congress: 

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

Washington, DC, September 10, 2012. 

Hon. JOHN A. BOEHNER, 

Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: This is to notify you 

formally, pursuant to Rule VIII of the Rules 

of the House of Representatives that I have 

been served with a subpoena for documents 

issued by the Fairfax County Circuit Court 

in connection with civil litigation currently 

pending before that court. 

After consultation with the Office of General Counsel, I have determined that compliance with the subpoena is inconsistent with 

the privileges and precedents of the House. 

Best wishes. 

Sincerely, 

FRANK R. WOLF, 

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Member of Congress. 

CONGRATULATING RICHMOND, 

TEXAS, ON ITS 175TH ANNIVERSARY 

(Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) 

Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today 

to congratulate the city of Richmond, 

Texas, for its 175th anniversary. There 

would not be a State of Texas without 

Richmond. 

In 1822, members of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred built a fort on 

a bend in the Brazos River. Stephen F. 

Austin is known as the ‘‘Father of 

Texas.’’ He built his colony around 

that fort where Richmond sits today. 

In the wake of Texas independence, 

Richmond was incorporated by the Republic of Texas as Fort Bend County’s 

seat of government in 1837. Richmond’s 

current iconic mayor, Hilmar Moore, is 

the longest-serving mayor in American 

history, serving the people of Richmond since 1949. 

Historically a center of commerce, 

the heart of an early livestock industry 

and a powerhouse of natural resources, 

the city continues to be something its 

people are darn proud of. It’s an honor 

to share that pride with the people of 

Richmond, Texas. Congratulations on 

our 175th anniversary. 

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REMEMBERING 9/11 

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. 

MARINO). Under the Speaker’s announced policy of January 5, 2011, the 

gentleman from Texas (Mr. GOHMERT) 

is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. 

Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, 11 

years ago today, the worst attack in 

American history on American soil occurred; more loss of life than Pearl 

Harbor. It was a day that those of us 

who are alive and old enough to know 

what was happening will never forget. 

It was a day of commitment as well 

that we would do whatever was necessary to protect our country, that we 

would do whatever was necessary to 

prevent future such attacks from occurring. 

I recall there in east Texas where I 

live, I was a judge at the time. The day 

after, September 12, 2001, was an extraordinary day as well. It was a day 

that I also will not forget. I had never 

seen communities come together as we 

did across America on September 12, 

2001, not in my lifetime. In World War 

II, from history, I’ve read accounts 

about some in America that felt like 

war with Germany was a bad idea, that 

we ought to be nice to them. There 

were even people that were divided in 

America back then. But the overall resolve was to protect democracy, make 

democracy safe—‘‘Make the World Safe 

for Democracy’’ was the slogan. 

But we were so united on September 

12, 2001. There in Tyler, Texas—and I 

know it happened all over east Texas 

the same way—people came together. 

It didn’t matter what race anyone was. 

It didn’t matter where they came from, 

their national origin—man, woman, religious preference didn’t matter, we 

came together as one people. There 

were no hyphenated Americans that 

day—no Anglo-Americans, AfricanAmericans, Asian-Americans. We were 

Americans. We stood united, and we 

wept together and we prayed together 

and we held hands and sang together. 

Here in Washington, D.C., once again 

today we sang ‘‘God Bless America’’ 

without regard to party, without regard to House, Senate. I think there 

was less mention of the word God 

today. I’m grateful for Speaker PELOSI, 

who at the end of her remarks asked 

for God to bless and comfort those who 

lost loved ones on 9/11 and asked that 

God would still bless America. I’m 

grateful she did that. Other leaders did 

not. 

Andy McCarthy—Andrew McCarthy— 

was the prosecutor of those who were 

involved in the 1993 World Trade Center 

bombing. He is a man that understands 

the Constitution. He understands the 

law. He is a fantastic prosecutor, a 

brilliant mind, and a great writer. And 

I won’t read the entire article, but it’s 

an article worth noting from Andrew C. 

McCarthy, entitled ‘‘Remembering 9/11 

. . . At Least for a Day.’’ He says: 

It is difficult to say what’s harder to believe: that it has been 11 years since the 9/11 

atrocities, or that national security has become an irrelevant issue in the most consequential Presidential election in decades. 

The first observation reminds us that 

today is a day of remembrance: of the loss of 

nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens; of the 

bravery of those who willingly gave their 

lives to save others; and of the heroism of 

the men and women who put on the line all 

that they have. That includes the love and 

well-being of their families, on whom the 

burden of American national security has 

been imposed while the rest of us go on with 

our lives—too often, without giving them a 

first thought, never mind a second. 

No matter which political party has been 

in power since 9/11, there has been a great 

deal of bloviating about the ‘‘rule of law.’’ It 

is as if we had evolved beyond anything so 

crude and benighted as armed force and national interest—especially national defense. 

Let’s remember today that we have the luxury of living under something resembling the 

rule of law only because dedicated Americans sacrifice themselves to confront evil— 

in this case, the adherents of an evil ideology, Islamic supremacism, that is closer to 

the law of the jungle. 

And for those who do not understand—I’m saying this parenthetically, 

it’s not in the article—Islamic 

supremacism is not talking about all of 

those who worship and follow Islam 

and Islamic teachings. We have friends 

around the world who do not want to 

live under totalitarian, radical Islamic 

supremacism, such as the Taliban, such 

as al Qaeda. They don’t want to live 

under that, and they’re Muslims. They 

want to live their lives. They want to 

worship in their own religion without 

totalitarians telling them how they 

must. 

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Unfortunately, as in Afghanistan, 

those Muslim friends, and Pakistan, for 

that matter, Iran and Iraq as well, 

there are Muslims who have admired 

the United States until we abandoned 

them. 

Going back to Andrew McCarthy’s 

article: 

The rule of law has precious little to do 

with why we have gotten through 11 years 

without a reprise of 9/11. A better explanation is that terrorists who have been captured or killed cannot commit more terrorism. 

I’ll insert, parenthetically, there are 

terrorists who were captured, some 

confined at Guantanamo Bay, some 

confined at other facilities, who have 

been released and who have been found 

again on the battlefield killing Americans. They were captured, prevented 

from enacting further terrorism, and 

then released under some false notion 

that that would win friends and influence people, only to have other Americans killed by these same thugs. 

Back to Andrew McCarthy’s article. 

He says: 

On the matter of evil, it is good to remember that it exists. Evil is not a misunderstanding, a cultural gulf, or a natural reaction to political policies adopted in pursuit 

of American interests or Israeli self-defense. 

That brings us to the second observation: the 


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