[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 133 (Wednesday, September 17, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H7629]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING CONSTITUTION DAY

  (Mr. SMITH of Missouri asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Madam Speaker, today, September 17, 2014, 
marks 82,910 days since the Constitution was signed in 1787. Though I 
have only been a United States Congressman for 469 of those days, on 
every one of them, I work to uphold the oath of office I swore: to 
defend our Nation's most important governing document, the 
Constitution.
  On this Constitution Day, I would like to take some time to remind us 
all that all parts of the founding document are important. Especially 
in this time of executive overreach, we should remember that our 
Constitution created three equal and distinct branches of government.

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