[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19423]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WELCOMING REV. DANNY DAVIS

  (Mr. GOODE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODE. Mr. Speaker, I too want to say welcome to Dr. Danny Davis 
for delivering the opening prayer this morning. His son works in the 
office of Congresswoman Thelma Drake. But his church, Mount Hermon 
Baptist Church, is located in the Fifth District of Virginia. His 
predecessor, Dr. Don Davidson, in the last Congress delivered an 
opening prayer. And Mount Hermon Baptist Church served as the host 
church for the memorial services of my predecessor in Congress, the 
late Dan Daniel, 20 years ago.
  In closing, Mr. Speaker, I would like to say that the measure passed 
yesterday for the Commonwealth of Virginia was a hoax and a sham. It 
provides no funds for the Commonwealth, for its offshore natural gas 
and its offshore crude oil. I have talked with members of the General 
Assembly. They will be very reluctant to adopt any drill policy when 
they are not treated the same as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and 
Alabama. We need to be fair to encourage drilling.

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