[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 62 (Monday, May 6, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E593]
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                        A TRIBUTE TO MABEL BAKER

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 6, 2013

  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and congratulate 
Mabel Baker on the coming celebration of her 100th birthday. Mabel will 
celebrate a century of life on May 30th, 2013.
   Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Mabel's 
life. Since her birth, we have revolutionized air travel and walked on 
the moon. We have invented the television, cellular phones and the 
internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism and witnessed the birth of new democracies. Mabel has 
lived through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-two 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
   Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Mabel in the United States 
Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 100th birthday. 
I invite my colleagues in the House to join me in congratulating Ms. 
Baker on reaching this incredible milestone, and wishing her even more 
health and happiness in the years to come.

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