[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11361]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            ARMED FORCES DAY

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. This weekend is Armed Forces Day, and are 
not our men and women in uniform doing a great job.
  I hear all this talk about the Texas Legislature. We have got a lot 
of deserters down there, the guys that are afraid to stand and fight 
like our armed services do.
  Fox TV said, and I thought it was pretty good, and I paraphrase, they 
said, Are you not a Texas legislator? The guy answered yes. He said, 
Well, what are you doing in Ardmore, Oklahoma? The legislature meets in 
Austin, Texas.
  It is a shame that we cannot have formal debate in our capital in 
Texas. Thank God we did not have those Democrats at the Alamo. God 
bless them.

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