[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12746]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                HAMILTON IMAGE SHOULD REMAIN ON $10 BILL

  (Mr. PASCRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to affirm my support for the image 
of Alexander Hamilton to remain on the face of the $10 bill. Paterson, 
New Jersey, a city characterized by its Great Falls, is a great city 
that was transformed by Hamilton to serve as one of America's first 
industrial centers. I have lived there all my life. I still live there.
  I would like to share some of the knowledge that I have obtained 
about Alexander Hamilton. He arrived in America as a poor immigrant 
from the Caribbean island of Nevis. He attended school in New York and 
became involved in the American Revolution, was a great general in the 
battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth, and indeed at the battle 
of Yorktown, which was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. For 
those who read history, George Washington turned to him. He was his 
trusted aide.
  Hamilton wrote 51 of the Federalist Papers. In 1789, Hamilton served 
in George Washington's administration, and was the first Secretary of 
the Treasury. His innovative mind afforded him the opportunity to use 
his new position to provide Americans with financial machinery, 
including banks.
  Ronald Reagan, our dearly beloved former President, was correct when 
he called Alexander Hamilton ``a man of enormous intellectual capacity 
and courage.''
  Mr. Speaker, I challenge those proponents who want to change the 
image on the $10 bill not to a duel, but for a little sanity here on 
the floor of the House.

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