[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 22, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CELEBRATING BICENTENNIAL OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, today is the 200th anniversary of the city 
of Memphis, Tennessee, the city of my birth, where I am a fourth-
generation Memphian. I am proud of my city and honored to represent it 
in the United States Congress.
  Memphis is a city that is well known for the National Civil Rights 
Museum that has turned like a phoenix the site of the assassination of 
Dr. Martin Luther King into a shrine for civil rights history and civil 
rights work in our country.
  It is a home of music, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Sun 
Records, and Graceland. It is a city of great barbecue, real barbecue, 
pork. It is a city of basketball, both the Memphis Grizzlies and the 
Memphis Tigers. And it is a city of marvelous people.
  It is a great city. Come celebrate with us the 200th birthday of 
Memphis, the great city that it is.

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