[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THANKING OUR RETURNING TROOPS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Members, thank you, and to my colleagues 
again, let me acknowledge the wearing of the yellow ribbon in a 
bipartisan way to say thank you to our troops.
  But I do want to thank as well, again, the Young Scholars Academy and 
Dr. Anella Coleman, who were so kind to make these ribbons and to learn 
about our appreciation for the work of our troops coming home from 
Iraq. Over 100,000 have come home in the last 14 months, and I'm asking 
our Members to go home and yellow-ribbon your offices and your 
community, and have signs on your marquee that say, Welcome home to the 
troops, a job well done.
  We never want our troops to come home from any battlefield, called to 
serve their Nation, to a silent America. And again, as we've supported 
or promoted better conditions for family and troops, we were able 
yesterday to give them a 1.9 percent increase in salary.
  Now, as we go home for the holiday season, doing our work, let us say 
thank you to our troops. Thank you, Members, for wearing a yellow 
ribbon today.

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