[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 2 (Monday, January 4, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E3]
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                   WELCOMING CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY MACE

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                            HON. JOE WILSON

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 4, 2021

  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Madam Speaker, an article today by 
Caitlyn Byrd titled, ``Republican Nancy Mace to be sworn in as South 
Carolina's newest member of Congress'' in The State newspaper of 
Columbia reports that:

       ``[Nancy Mace will be] South Carolina's newest member of 
     Congress and the state's only female representative in 
     Washington.'' (She is one of the 15 Congressional seats 
     flipped in 2020 from Democrat to Republican).
       ``Mace, 43, joins a record-breaking number of Republican 
     women elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Mace, a 
     Daniel Island Republican, will be one of 18 freshman GOP 
     women in the 117th Congress.
       ``Mace's two children, Elli and Miles, were expected to 
     watch their mom become a congresswoman . . .''

  As a native of Charleston myself, I am grateful for the success of 
Congresswoman Mace. I also appreciate my mother, Wray Wilson, who 
campaigned in Charleston for President Eisenhower in 1952 before there 
were any elected Republicans in South Carolina, at any level. With the 
Trump landslide, now there are the largest Republican majorities in the 
state with more elected Republicans in 140 years.
  In conclusion, God Bless our Troops and we will never forget 
September 11th in the Global War on Terrorism.

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