[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6980]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              WAGER ON DUKE UNIVERSITY-MICHIGAN STATE GAME

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Smith) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I am here to acknowledge defeat 
in a wager that I encountered with the gentleman from North Carolina 
(Mr. Etheridge). We bet, as unsuitable as some might feel about 
wagering, but we bet on the Duke-Michigan State game, and the loser was 
to furnish each member of the Committee on Agriculture with an 
agricultural product from their State.
  As great a team as Michigan State is and was, they ended up slightly 
being defeated by Duke University. And I just wanted to announce 
publicly that I am furnishing each member of the Committee on 
Agriculture with tokens that represent Michigan, navy beans from the 
State of Michigan, the world's top producer of navy beans; and also 
from Battle Creek, Michigan, a new cereal by Kellogg.

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