Floor Statements
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia for this time.
This is my first year in the Congress. In my 24 years in the State senate, I was the leading spokesperson for animal welfare legislation, and I took great pride in that. So I am particularly appreciative of standing up on this bill.
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Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
H.R. 753, sponsored by the entire Tennessee delegation of both the House and the Senate, is to designate the Federal building in Memphis, Tennessee, located at 167 North Main Street as the Clifford Davis and Odell Horton Federal Building.
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Mr. Speaker, on Monday I spoke on this floor about a conflict I had in supporting this measure because I want peace in our world and I want our troops to come home. I asked for my constituents to let me know how they felt.
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Madam Speaker, yesterday in Memphis, Tennessee, a giant of a man passed away: G.E. Patterson, the bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a congregation of over 6.5 million people worldwide headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Mr. Speaker, as a Tennessean, I am proud of the success of my three schools that have reached the Sweet Sixteen.
In America, there is nothing going on with greater import on the local scene than March Madness; and there is no place more happy about the madness than the State of Tennessee, the Volunteer State.
On Thursday, March 8th Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) joined fellow members of Congress in continuing to honor those soldiers who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The project, begun in 2006, will continue to honor these men and women until each name is read into the Congressional Record.
Calling Names of Those from Tennessee
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Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H. Res. 162, which recognizes the contributions of Negro Baseball Leagues.
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Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the House, today I am going to introduce a bill to call on the United States Government to apologize for the history in this country of having a slave system and for Jim Crow laws that went on for a hundred additional years.
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Madam Speaker, the great poet, Maya Angelou said, ``When I knew better, I did better.''
I am a member of the Progressive Caucus, proudly so, because I believe that we must always strive to do better to truly make progress.