[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 302]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          MOVE AMERICA FORWARD

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, last night was the State of the Union, but it 
was also the State of the American family, for family values were much 
on display like I have never seen before in this room. We had the 
President of the United States and his beautiful wife, Michelle, who 
have a beautiful family and certainly exhibited family values. And we 
had Gabby Giffords and her marvelous husband, Mark Kelly, who have 
shown family values. Two couples in America that are beautiful and have 
shown what vows mean and what for better or worse mean. They know a 
marriage is forever.
  They also are great Americans who want to bring this country 
together. And the President properly said our country is great. We're 
doing better. We have improved since the Bush years in so many areas 
and are putting our country on a course toward economic employment, 
preservation of the middle class, shared responsibility, and fairness.
  I urge everybody, in the spirit of family values that the President 
and Representative Giffords and their families exhibit, to join 
together as an American family and move this country forward and keep 
America number one.

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