[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S LEGACY

  (Ms. SLAUGHTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to remind my colleagues that 
as we preserve the legacy of our great President, Franklin Delano 
Roosevelt with his memorial here in Washington, we must not forget the 
ideals that he upheld for the American people.
  FDR once said, ``The test of our progress is not whether we add more 
to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide 
enough for those who have too little.'' Those words resonate true now 
more than ever.
  As a Nation we must never forget our responsibility to the general 
welfare of all of our citizens. This means we have a duty to the mother 
who is without the resources to feed her infant, we have a duty to 
ensure that our poor children receive the same health care as their 
classmates, and, yes, we even have a duty to the immigrants who are 
struggling in a new country, for the words etched on the Statute of 
Liberty still read ``Give us your tired, your poor, yearning to be free 
* * *.''
  Mr. Speaker, as we commemorate Franklin Roosevelt's legacy let us 
never forget that it was because of his dedication to those who had too 
little that many Americans now have so much.

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