[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 3 (Thursday, January 8, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H141]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    COMMEMORATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate and celebrate 
the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. A lot of 
celebrations are going on about this important, decisive victory that 
helped America expand West and establish the Port of New Orleans, but 
there has also been such a great collaboration with the British 
Government.
  In fact, the British Government has been working with the National 
Park Service and the Battle of New Orleans Commission to not only 
commemorate this occasion, but also to remember those who died on both 
the American and British sides.
  They are working together again to forge that great relationship that 
we have always had. In fact, this was the last time that the United 
States and Great Britain were on the opposite sides of a war.
  While we appreciate that great relationship we have with Great 
Britain, we are also celebrating that important moment in the history 
of the United States: the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New 
Orleans.

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