[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       FLAG PROTECTION AMENDMENT

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of House Joint 
Resolution No. 36, the flag protection constitutional amendment.
  The flag stands for all of us in this wonderful country, and the 
honor we bestow upon it as our symbol is as great as the contributions 
each of us should hope to make for our Nation.
  If the Stars and Stripes could talk, I am sure that they would say, 
``I am what you make of me. It is up to you to keep me raised high and 
flying. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may 
become. I am all that you hope to be and have the courage to try for.
  ``I am song and fear, struggle and panic, and ennobling hope. I am 
the day's work of the weakest man, and the largest dream of the most 
daring. I am the battle of yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow. I am 
the clutch of an idea and the reasoned purpose of resolution.
  ``I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that you 
believe I can be. I am what you make of me, nothing more.''
  Mr. Speaker, I consistently vote for this amendment because I believe 
that all Americans should be allowed to vote on whether to protect our 
flag.

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