[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 157 (Wednesday, October 17, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11644]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING ERNA WELTE OF STILLWATER, MINNESOTA

  (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, Minnesota is known as a State of great 
longevity. We have the longest married couple in the history of the 
United States living in my district. We also have some of the longest 
living people in the United States in my district. This week I had the 
occasion to wish one of my constituents happy birthday on her 102nd 
birthday.
  I want to honor another constituent from my hometown who is 100 this 
week. I want to wish happy birthday to Erna Welte of Stillwater, 
Minnesota. She has seen the Great Depression, she has seen World War 
II, she has seen the space race. She has been alive before television 
and during television. She has seen it all. But Erna says, ``I don't 
feel that old.'' She's young at heart.
  Just recently, when she celebrated 90 years of age, her granddaughter 
taught Erna how to drive a car. For the first time, she learned to 
drive a car. She's a wonderful, witty, wise individual, and I am so 
grateful for the senior citizens of the United States, particularly 
those long-living, happy people who live in my district.
  Erna, happy birthday to you, and to our Nation's finest, our senior 
citizens.

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