May 14, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 80 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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                    RECOGNIZING NATIONAL POLICE WEEK

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize National Police 
Week.
  Thousands of police officers from around the country are in 
Washington, D.C., this week, and I want to welcome them with the 
recognition and appreciation they deserve and that they don't always 
receive these days.
  I thank the Capitol Police officers, Officers David Bailey and 
Crystal Griner, who saved many of my colleagues' lives less than 2 
years ago when they took down an armed gunman at that baseball practice 
that we so famously heard about.
  I am very thankful for our officers that we have in northern 
California, many who have had to work around the clock with some of the 
disasters we have had in recent years with the dam and the fires, who 
really helped make an orderly situation out of a lot of chaos.
  Nationally, I hate to have to relate these statistics, but 163 police 
officers died in the line of duty last year, 52 from gunfire. Any 
number greater than zero is unacceptable.
  In California, we lost 11 officers in 2018. This year, we tragically 
lost 22-year-old Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona, one of the most 
heartbreaking ones you might ever see. She was following in her 
father's footsteps, who was an officer for a long time in Colusa 
County.
  Indeed, these men and women know it is a higher calling, a higher, 
24-hour duty that they answer to for all of our safety. We appreciate 
them. We love them, and let's always be sure we remember to show them 
that.

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