[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4871]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         A MOTHER'S DAY TRIBUTE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from Texas [Ms. Jackson-Lee] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, this Sunday, May 14, 1995, we will have 
another very joyous occasion to celebrate and commemorate a very 
special day for Americans, and so I thought it appropriate during the 
course of deliberation and sometimes making very difficult decisions on 
behalf of all of our citizens to simply take a moment to part the 
waters and stop for a moment and pause and simply say happy Mother's 
Day, happy Mother's Day to the mothers, to grandmothers, to mothers-in-
law, to stepmothers, to foster mothers, those mothers who take in 
children, mothers who have adopted, and act as mothers, those women 
with no relation by blood or law but have really mothered someone 
somehow, somewhere, and certainly to those mothers in your 
neighborhoods and cities and towns and our counties and our States and 
our churches and synagogues and parishes and mothers who are always 
there to help someone. I simply want to say to you and to all Americans 
let us make May 14, 1995 a very special time, a very close time, a very 
rewarding time for that woman who has been so very special to you. Let 
us make sure we say to each and every one of those mothers and I 
certainly want to say to all of those in the 18th Congressional 
District of Texas happy Mother's Day to you. You deserve it and we 
could not have done it without you.

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