[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 185 (Tuesday, November 19, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1468]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING LAURA CHAFFIN

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 19, 2019

  Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, the Holy Bible, the book of Mark, Chapter 
12, Verse 30 says, ``Love your God with all your heart and with all 
your soul and with all your mind and with all of your strength.'' Those 
words sum up Laura Chaffin, her life.
  An accident last year in Uganda took her voice and paralyzed her for 
a couple of trying weeks. She was there with her husband Bryan trying 
to put their family together. The Chaffin family is beside me right 
now. There is Laura, there is Bryan, and their three sons, Elijah, 
David, and Jonah.
  If you think Laura felt pity when she was hurt, you are dead wrong. 
With a team of experts at TIRR at Memorial Hermann Hospital, and with 
the love of family and the love of Jesus Christ, she started talking 
and walking and teaching at Alvin ISD and cooking for her family. She 
became, again, a mom and a wife.

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