[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 189 (Friday, November 30, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ROMANIA'S GREAT UNION CENTENNIAL

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                          HON. KEVIN McCARTHY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 30, 2018

  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, December 1, 2018 marks Romania's Great 
Union Centennial. It was on this day 100 years ago that members of the 
Romanian National Assembly gathered together and unanimously voted to 
unify the territories that they represented.
  That same year, as World War I raged on, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, 
General Hugh L. Scott, the first American high-official to visit 
Romania, addressed the Romanian Parliament. Gen. Scott assured the 
parliamentarians that the United States would fight with them and the 
other Allied partners until victory was secured.
  Today, Romania stands as a country that has faithfully contributed to 
European peace and shared the burden of our collective transatlantic 
security. Romania also has contributed greatly to NATO's operations in 
Afghanistan, Iraq and to the Alliance's capacity to defend against 
ballistic missile threats.
  We Americans are proud to recognize the contribution of many 
generations of Romanian-Americans to the history and the development of 
the United States, and to honor their rich cultural heritage as an 
intimate part of the very fabric of U.S. society.
  Therefore, recognizing the outstanding strategic partnership between 
our two nations, I congratulate Romania and all Romanian-Americans on 
their celebration of the Great Union Centennial.

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