[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5945]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          JACKSON THEODORE POE

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, a new son of Texas breathed the air of our free 
Nation with his birth on April 10, 2006. His birth made him an eighth-
generation Texan, and he can trace his Scot, Irish and German roots to 
the proud days of the Republic of Texas.
  Born in The Woodlands, Texas, at 6 pounds, 9 ounces, he bears a 
middle name that has been a family name for over 100 years and dates 
back to his ancestry in Germany. He is a gift from the Lord to his 
parents Kurt and Susie and to his four grandparents and his great-
grandparents.
  He is, by the chance of birth, an American. As a child he is the most 
important and the greatest of all American natural resources. Mr. 
Speaker, every time a child is born, the good Lord is making a bet on 
the future of our Nation.
  As his grandfather, it is my hope that Jackson Theodore Poe lives the 
strong, rugged, determined life of a free man; that he will live with 
the words ``liberty'' on his lips, integrity in his heart and 
compassion in his soul; and that he never forgets duty, honor and 
loyalty. And that's just the way it is.

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