[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15753]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     WELCOMING ELIZABETH ALEXANDER

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, birth is a happy event for all peoples. We 
rejoice because we hope that child will make the world better. Every 
time a child is born, the Good Lord is making a bet on the future of 
mankind. We do not pick our parents, and we do not get to pick the 
country of our birth. And we who are born in the U.S.A. are the most 
fortunate of all people in the history of the world.
  Last night in Waco, Texas, about the time the sun was going down, 
8:29 p.m., Elizabeth Lenna Alexander was born, 7 pounds 3 ounces, July 
12, 2005. The world she has been born into is full of the good and the 
not so good.
  Our country must always be willing to protect the greatest resource, 
the innocent of our country, the soul of our future, our children.
  It is my hope that her parents, Kara and Shane Alexander, will raise 
Elizabeth with a sense of justice and compassion, community, courage, 
and a deep sense and concern for liberty.
  So Elizabeth, as your grandfather, I welcome you to the U.S.A. Make 
it a better place, a place of more freedom.

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