[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6667]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    APPLAUDING TENNESSEE BASKETBALL

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, as a Tennessean, I am proud of the success of 
my three schools that have reached the Sweet Sixteen.
  In America, there is nothing going on with greater import on the 
local scene than March Madness; and there is no place more happy about 
the madness than the State of Tennessee, the Volunteer State.
  Three of our schools have teams in the Sweet Sixteen: Our land grant 
university, the University of Tennessee; and my two alma maters, 
Vanderbilt University and the University of Memphis.
  On Thursday, the University of Tennessee and the University of 
Memphis will both be playing in the Sweet Sixteen in San Antonio, 
Texas. Everybody in Texas knows if it weren't for Tennessee, there 
wouldn't be a Texas. So we bring basketball to Texas, and we brought 
liberty and independence to Texas. We have a lot of pride in our 
basketball teams and our universities.

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