[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19666-19667]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WHATEVER WE CAN DO

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, in Tennessee we are called 
``volunteers,'' and that is for good reason because when our Nation is 
in need, our State responds. And such is the case we see this week and 
over the past several days as those who are the victims, the evacuees, 
from Hurricane Katrina have needed our help. Our Nation and our State 
have responded.
  This headline in the Williamson AM pretty much says it: ``Whatever we 
can do.'' And that is the way the people of Tennessee have responded, 
opening their churches, opening their homes, opening town halls to help 
those who are in need of supplies, in need of schooling for children, 
in need of a place to live, food to eat.
  I want to say thank you to all of those volunteers who have risen to 
the occasion in Tennessee, and I thank the volunteers all across the 
Nation who have responded to those who have found themselves in need 
because of the storm that we experienced last week.

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