[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    MEETING DANIEL WEBSTER'S CHARGE

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, Sunday, this was an historic sight when the 
health care bill passed this House, and today in the East Room of the 
White House President Obama signed it into law. The signing of that 
bill, hopefully changed by the reconciliation bill, will stand with 
Medicare, Social Security, and civil rights as some of the great laws 
to ever pass in this Nation's history. I am so proud to have been a 
part of it.
  To reflect on Daniel Webster, whose words are engraved above the 
Speaker's rostrum in the wall of this building, ``Let us develop the 
resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its 
institutions, promote all its great interests and see whether we also 
in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be 
remembered.''
  This Democratic 111th Congress has met Daniel Webster's charge and 
done something for this generation and others worthy to be remembered.

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