[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H2251]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REMEMBERING PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN

  (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, at 7:22 this morning, 150 years ago, we 
lost one of the greatest leaders of our Nation: President Abraham 
Lincoln.
  Lincoln understood American exceptionalism. We know this for many 
reasons, but one great reason was his words at Gettysburg. He told the 
crowd that our Fathers had brought forth on this continent a new 
nation, one conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that 
all men are created equal. It was his vision that this Nation would 
have a new birth of freedom; and, for that beautiful vision, many have 
fought and died.
  President Lincoln understood the cost of freedom. He was a Member of 
this, the people's House, for one term before he rose to become--what I 
believe--one of our greatest statesmen.
  He struggled and never gave up to pass the 13th Amendment, so that no 
one here would ever again have to endure the sin of slavery. He died 
for the dream that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness would 
finally become more than just words, that it would be a promise kept to 
all.
  As we remember Lincoln as one of the greatest American leaders and 
the truest embodiment of American principles, our country still feels 
the mark of his great presence today. I thought it was important that 
we memorialize it here.

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