[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 35 (Monday, March 2, 2015)]
[House]
[Pages H1511-H1512]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY HOME, THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, 179 years ago, a document from home changed 
the world with 102 final words. These words are:

       We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the 
     people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to 
     a candid

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     world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve 
     and declare that our political connection with the Mexican 
     nation has forever ended and that the people of Texas do now 
     constitute a free, sovereign, and independent republic and 
     are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which 
     properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the 
     rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently 
     commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of 
     the destinies of nations.

  Happy birthday to my home, the Republic of Texas.

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