[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PAYTON POE ALEXANDER--NEW TEXAN

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the miracle of birth is a remarkable, happy 
event. None of us pick our parents or the place from which we come. The 
good Lord makes those decisions, and some of us have the fortune of 
being born in America.
  Yesterday, April 9, at 10:28 a.m. in the central Texas town of Waco, 
another child took his first breath of the crisp air of life, being 
born in the land of the free.
  Payton Poe Alexander showed up tipping the scales at 9 pounds-1 ounce 
and a height of 22 inches. Not bad for his first day on earth. His 
mother, Kara, my daughter, and his father Shane, are right-thinking, 
God-fearing people. Payton's little 2-year-old sister Elizabeth, shall 
we say, is inquisitive.
  Mr. Speaker, we all get excited when kids are born, because we see in 
those innocent eyes the hope of the world, the chance that this new 
child might make a difference for the rest of us.
  My hope for my new grandson is that he grows up embodying the spirit 
of truth, justice and the American way, and that he plays football for 
the University of Texas and not Texas A&M.
  And that's just the way it is.

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