[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       PRESIDENT REAGAN'S LEGACY

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, mark your calendar. It is official. I have, 
in fact, as of this date and this hour heard everything: President 
Ronald Wilson Reagan on the occasion of his 91st birthday used as an 
example in the House of Representatives as a tax increaser in America 
and as an example of someone who believed in the virtue of tax 
increases.
  It is a privilege to rise on the 91st birthday of President Ronald 
Wilson Reagan. I had the privilege of meeting him in person. I did not 
know then what we would all come to know, how he would bestride history 
as few men who have occupied the Presidency would do; how he would 
rebuild our economy through tax cuts, believing in American 
entrepreneurism and ingenuity; how he would rebuild the military after 
years of reckless cutbacks and bring the godless Soviet Union to its 
knees.
  Mr. Speaker, though he cannot hear these words today or even yet 
remember what he did for America, I believe that soon, with eyes again 
young, Ronald Reagan will see what his courage has wrought and will 
hear those words, ``Well done, good and faithful servant.''

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