[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7824]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 IF WE KNEW HOW GREAT GRANDPARENTING WAS WE MIGHT HAVE SKIPPED THE KIDS

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, it is my very special pleasure 
to rise today and celebrate the birth of Henry Sloane Davis. Many of us 
have heard the expression that if we knew how great grandparenting was, 
we might have skipped the kids.
  I certainly enjoy my children and it is wonderful being a mother-in-
law, but I can assure everyone, and many in the audience know this, 
that holding one's grandchild for the first time is just a phenomenal 
experience.
  I know that I came here to Congress to make the world a better place, 
and there is nothing that will rededicate, I think, one's efforts to 
that than the birth of a grandchild.
  I want to thank my many colleagues who have perhaps suffered through 
all the pictures that I have been showing them. We are really very 
human here, and I am thankful when we have these special events in our 
lives and people respond as warmly as they have to me. I then know that 
we all are focused on the right things. Whenever we vote, we want to be 
thinking about how that vote will affect the lives of our children, our 
grandchildren, and their children.
  I am thankful, Mr. Speaker, for this opportunity to celebrate Henry's 
birth.

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