[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 9, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H883-H884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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         ARMY STAFF SGT. LINCOLN HOLLINSAID MALDEN POST OFFICE

  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and 
pass the bill (H.R. 3536) to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, 
as the ``Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden Post Office''.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                               H.R. 3536

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. ARMY STAFF SGT. LINCOLN HOLLINSAID MALDEN POST 
                   OFFICE.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, shall 
     be known and designated as the ``Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln 
     Hollinsaid Malden Post Office''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden 
     Post Office.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Terry). Pursuant to the rule, the 
gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller) and the gentlewoman from the 
District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) each will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller).


                             General Leave

  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and 
extend their remarks and include extraneous material on H.R. 3536.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Michigan?
  There was no objection.
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I 
may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, the next three pieces of legislation that the House will 
consider today are each tributes to a fallen soldier of the United 
States Armed Forces who served in Iraq in the past year.
  All Americans and all peace-loving people around the world should 
have rejoiced in the news just yesterday that members of the Iraqi 
Governing Council signed an interim constitution, a grand step towards 
the objective of establishing free elections and a permanent self-
ruling government in Iraq.
  Mr. Speaker, in working to achieve these extraordinary goals, 
countless American servicemen and women have sacrificed for months 
since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom nearly one year ago and, 
indeed, some American soldiers today have paid the ultimate price for 
our country. Today I am pleased that the House is taking time

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to consider bills that will honor the lives of three brave men whose 
service to our Nation and to freedom everywhere must never be 
forgotten.
  Mr. Speaker, the first of the three bills introduced by the gentleman 
from Illinois (Mr. Weller) that we will consider is H.R. 3536. This 
designates a post office in Malden, Illinois as the Army Staff Sgt. 
Lincoln Hollinsaid Post Office. All members of the Illinois State 
delegation have co-sponsored this meaningful legislation.
  Mr. Speaker, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid left his home in 
Malden, Illinois, on January 22, 2003 and headed to the Middle East as 
an engineer with the Army's Third Infantry Division to participate in 
the liberation of Iraq. He was killed tragically on April 7, 2003 in 
Iraq when a rocket propelled grenade hit the crane that he was 
operating. Sergeant Hollinsaid was 27 years old.
  Lincoln was a graduate of Princeton High School in Princeton, 
Illinois, and he was an avid fisher. He enlisted with the Army in 1995 
and he had served ever since.
  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Weller), I 
extend the heartfelt sympathy of the House of Representatives to the 
family of Lincoln Hollinsaid, especially his father, Dan, his mother, 
Nancy, and his two brothers, Adam and Kevin.
  I urge all the Members of the House to support H.R. 3536, that will 
commemorate the life and service of Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to join the gentlewoman from Michigan 
(Mrs. Miller) in presenting these 3 bills that honor three men who have 
served us with all they had to give in Iraq. I am particularly honored 
to do so because the District of Columbia has lost more men already in 
Iraq than many States all without voting representation in this House 
or in the Senate. So it is with special pride that I speak for myself 
and for all whom I represent in honoring these three men who gave their 
lives for all of us.
  As a member of the House Committee on Government Reform, I am pleased 
to join my colleague in consideration of H.R. 3536, legislation naming 
a postal facility in Malden, Illinois after Staff Sergeant Lincoln 
Hollinsaid. This measure was introduced by the gentleman from Illinois 
(Mr. Weller) on November 19, 2003 and unanimously reported by our 
committee on February 12, 2004.
  H.R. 3536 enjoys the support and co-sponsorship of the entire 
Illinois delegation.
  Army Staff Sergeant Lincoln D. Hollinsaid was a soldier from Malden, 
Illinois, who was killed on April 7, 2003 in an Iraq grenade attack.
  Lincoln Hollinsaid graduated from the local high school in Malden, 
Princeton High, and worked a short while at a local construction 
company before enlisting in the U.S. Army. As an Army engineer, Staff 
Sergeant Hollinsaid served on the Army's Third Infantry Division. He 
was assigned to the B company, 11th Engineer Battalion, in Fort 
Stewart, Georgia.
  Because of his interest in serving in combat, Hollinsaid transferred 
from a California training post to the Third Infantry Division in 
Georgia. Sadly, at age 27, this staff sergeant was killed when the 
crane he was driving was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. He is 
survived by his parents, Dan and Nancy, and two brothers, Adam and 
Kevin.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague for seeking to honor the memory 
of a fallen soldier. I urge swift passage of this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I yield as much time as he may 
consume to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Weller), the sponsor of 
this legislation.
  Mr. WELLER. Mr. Speaker, let me first begin by thanking the gentleman 
from Virginia (Mr. Davis) of the Committee on Government Reform, every 
member of the Committee on Government Reform, and particularly the 
gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller) and the gentlewoman from the 
District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) for joining me here on the floor and 
their assistance in their effort to honor these three members of the 
American military.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend the heroic actions of three 
service members from the 11th Congressional District of Illinois, three 
service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice of their life to the 
defense of our Nation and our freedoms. Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln 
Hollinsaid of Malden, Illinois; Marine Captain Ryan Beaupre of St. 
Anne, Illinois; and Army Private Shawn Pahnke of Manhattan, Illinois, 
each served proudly and bravely in the United States military.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, the House will honor the memory of these three 
soldiers with the passage of H.R. 3536, H.R. 3537, and H.R. 3538, bills 
that will rename the post offices in each of these soldiers' hometowns 
in their honor. I note and express appreciation to my colleagues in the 
Illinois delegation, all of whom have co-sponsored this legislation, 
each and every one of them of the 19 in the Illinois delegation.
  Mr. Speaker, I have unfortunately lost three soldiers from my 
district in the war against terror. In each of these cases the soldiers 
who gave their lives came from small communities, towns where each of 
those soldiers are well known, towns that gave one of their own in the 
defense of freedom, towns that have been there to help give the 
Hollinsaid, Beaupre and Pahnke families the support they needed and 
still need in dealing with their loss.
  Today this body will bestow a small yet important honor in 
remembrance of the sacrifices of these three men, soldiers and their 
families by renaming the only Federal installations in these three 
small towns, the community gathering place, the local United States 
Post Office.
  H.R. 3536 will rename the Malden, Illinois Post Office after Army 
Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid. Staff Sergeant Hollinsaid was an 
engineer with the U.S. Army Third Infantry Battalion. He was lost April 
7, 2003 while operating a crane to help clear a path along U.S. Army 
forces to penetrate the grounds of the Baghdad Airport and capture this 
key facility.
  Lincoln loved fishing, four-wheeling in his truck, and was also a 
self-taught guitar player. Linc, as his father Dan and mother Nancy 
called him, was proud to serve in the United States Armed Forces and 
his service has been a great source of pride for the small community of 
Malden, a town of 380 residents in Bureau County, Illinois.
  Lincoln Hollinsaid was more than a source of pride, though. Linc and 
his family have been a source of strength for other military families 
dealing with the loss of a loved one. So much so that our own 
president, President Bush, made mention of Linc in his address at 
Arlington National Cemetery this past Memorial Day.
  The Memorial Day services at Arlington was somber, as tradition would 
have you expect, but the crowd chuckled as President Bush recalled a 
letter that Army Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid wrote from the Mid 
East, telling his family that he enjoyed getting mail from them but I 
wish my truck and boat knew how to write. President Bush said, quoting 
Hollinsaid, ``I sure do miss them.''
  We miss Lincoln Hollinsaid. I ask for Members' prayers for the 
Hollinsaid family and Members' unanimous support of H.R. 3536 to rename 
the Malden, Illinois Post Office after Army Staff Sergeant Lincoln 
Hollinsaid.
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I urge all members to support 
H.R. 3536.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller) that the House suspend the 
rules and pass the bill, H.R. 3536.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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