[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 22 (Tuesday, February 12, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H438]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     REMEMBERING PRESIDENT LINCOLN

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. 
Unfortunately, not many Americans probably know that; but February 12 
used to be a date that people remembered. Now it's just Presidents Day, 
a weak invocation.
  An award-winning movie is presently showing about President Lincoln, 
a great President who saved the Union and got the 13th Amendment 
passed--slavery abolished. But the movie also showed that President 
Lincoln could make compromise and make the two sides of the bodies work 
together for the betterment of this Nation.
  As President Obama from the Land of Lincoln speaks tonight in the 
State of the Union, we should remember what Lincoln taught us: that you 
need to work for the union of this government, the unity of our people, 
for rights for everybody and diversity, and for the two parties to work 
together for the betterment of the United States of America.
  Thank you, President Lincoln.

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