[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 297]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SECOND SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on April 19, 1775, 235 years ago, 
shots rang out in Massachusetts that forever changed the history of the 
world. British redcoats were ordered to seize the weapons of the 
American militia, even though it's never a good idea to try to disarm 
the American people.
  The famous midnight ride of Paul Revere warned the Minutemen that the 
invincible British were coming. And as the sun rose over the town of 
Lexington, Massachusetts, the first shots rang out against the British 
tyranny, shots heard around the world.
  At the north bridge of Concord, patriots fought the British Army. The 
mighty British were defeated and turned back towards Boston. These were 
the first battles of the American Revolution to throw off the yoke of 
tyranny for a new idea of freedom.
  The people of Massachusetts have fired a second shot heard around the 
world. Yesterday, they fired back against big, intrusive government, 
not with bullets, but with ballots. The Senate election was a statement 
for freedom over oppression. Our government, like the British, would do 
well never to underestimate the American people.
  And that's just the way it is.

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