[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20060]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                  FIRST TEE BENEFITS INNER CITY YOUTH

  (Mr. TANNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, I come here this morning with the 
Congressional Roll Call Golf Cup here. We have Roll Call, a Capitol 
Hill newspaper here, which sponsors baseball games and football and 
basketball, and we have a Congressional Ryder Cup golf competition 
between the Democrats and Republicans every year. We recently had this 
for the First Tee organization. The First Tee organization and its 
president, Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., is an organization that brings golf 
and the skills and the character values that golf teaches people to 
inner city youth all across our country and to those who might 
otherwise not be exposed to the game.
  May I announce that this is not a hard chore for me because the 
Democrats won this year for the first time ever.
  I was privileged to serve as captain of the Democratic team, and Mike 
Oxley, who was tied up in conference and asked me to go ahead with this 
this morning, was captain of the Republican team. The competition was 
fierce, but we did this for the children of our country who can be 
exposed to the principles of golf.
  Golf is the only sport that doesn't have an umpire or referee. You 
play yourself, and the values that golf teaches is something that we 
think is worthwhile.
  I want to congratulate the First Tee Roll Call, and the Republican 
team and the Democratic team who showed up for this very, very 
worthwhile project.

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