[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 19 (Tuesday, February 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1240-H1241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE HONORABLE CONSTANCE MORELLA, AND 
                          THE PARLIAMENTARIAN

  (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Madam Speaker, I have been informed that yesterday 
was your birthday and also the Parliamentarian's birthday, and as all 
Americans know, February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday also. So, 
congratulations from one Member of the House, and we are very, very 
proud of you.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair thanks the gentleman from 
Mississippi for his warm greeting. It is true that it is a birthday 
shared with the 16th President of the United States, and in this 
Chamber we might be reminded that in President Lincoln's first 
inaugural, he said, ``Let us be inspired by the better angels of our 
nature,'' and the gentleman from Mississippi exemplifies that.

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