[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 8, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9972-S9973]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONGRATULATIONS TO ALISON AND PARKER BANKS CELEBRATING THEIR FIRST 
                                BIRTHDAY

  Mr. ASHCROFT. Mr. President, I rise today to encourage my colleagues 
to join me in congratulating Alison Spencer Banks and Parker James 
Banks on the anniversary of their first birthday. It was one year ago 
today that their parents, Sarah and John, were blessed with the gift of 
life, times two. Alison and Parker will see a much different world in 
their lifetime, than either myself or my colleagues have witnessed in 
theirs. Alison and Parker will have to meet the demands of an 
``information'' based culture and economy.
  As people of freedom reach for opportunity and achieve greatness, our 
nation prospers. A government that lives beyond its means and reaches 
beyond its limits violates our basic liberties, and the nation suffers.
  All of us assembled here in the United States Senate on this Fourth

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Day of September must keep in mind that the decisions we make today 
will shape the world that Alison, Parker, and their peers will inherit 
tomorrow. As elected leaders, we must teach them the values of our 
great democracy.

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