[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11926]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        SPIRIT OF FREEDOM AWARD

  (Mr. DeMINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeMINT. Mr. Speaker, last Thursday I presented to Mobile Meals of 
Spartanburg, South Carolina, the first Spirit of Freedom Award. Every 
day Mobile Meals volunteers deliver as well as prepare over 1,700 meals 
to needy people in my district, all without government funding. The 
people at Mobile Meals have shown me that freedom comes from the able 
hands of local people, people who take responsibility for themselves 
and their communities.
  Here in Washington, we can either protect or take away those 
freedoms. I believe it is our role in Congress to be the guardians of 
freedom. That is why we are working to return dollars, decisions and 
freedoms to the hands of local people.
  I thank Mobile Meals for showing us that freedom begins at home.

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