[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19645]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE BEST OF HUMAN NATURE

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, over the Labor Day weekend, I had the 
opportunity to go to Baton Rouge not as a Member of Congress but as a 
physician and to work in the River Center where the evacuees, over 
5,000, so many of them were there, and to help provide basic health 
care needs.
  What I saw in Louisiana was the best of human nature: a level of 
confusion, of course, and some disorganization, but people pulling 
together and trying to do the best they could in a difficult situation.
  Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle at 
a time like this, probably the greatest tragedy this Nation has ever 
seen, to pull together, avoid the temptation to get into a finger-
pointing, blaming situation, and let us see as a result of this the 
best of the human nature of this Congress.

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