[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 12, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      WELCOME TO REVEREND CHARLES C. HOBBS, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 
                         ROGERSVILLE, TENNESSEE

  (Mr. JENKINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JENKINS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to welcome our chaplain for 
the day and thank him for coming.
  Mr. Speaker, the Reverend Charles Hobbs, who is our chaplain for the 
day, over a long period of time as a teacher at Carson-Newman College, 
a Baptist college in Jefferson City, Tennessee, and as a minister in 
numerous Baptist churches throughout east Tennessee, has influenced 
literally tens of thousands of lives in a very positive way.
  I want to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Hobbs for coming here 
today, for imparting to us his wisdom through this opening prayer, this 
prayer for this House of Representatives and for this Nation. I 
certainly want to thank Chaplain Coughlin and the gentleman from 
Illinois (Speaker Hastert) for extending this invitation to him.

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