[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4247]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 WELCOMING THE REVEREND KATHLEEN BASKIN

  (Mr. SESSIONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SESSIONS. Mr. Speaker, today I have been joined by my preacher, 
the Reverend Kathleen Baskin from Greenland Hills United Methodist 
Church in Dallas, Texas, and it is especially important for me to be 
here today with my preacher because, Mr. Speaker, every week when I go 
home, I am met by those people who are members of the church, who 
embrace me and my family and offer the very best to me as one of the 
Members of Congress, and so it is wonderful that she today is a part of 
that which we get to do to open the House of Representatives today.
  Mr. Speaker, I give thanks not only for our heritage and our freedom, 
but the ability to share my preacher, a woman who speaks from the 
Bible, the Scripture, and who has abiding faith in our country and in 
our government.
  So I thank you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing Kathleen Baskin and myself 
to be a part of that which we do today. God bless America, and God 
bless Texas.

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