[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             PATRIOTIC GLUE

  (Mr. CLEAVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I don't particularly like the bill that is 
going to come to the floor, but I am going to vote for it. And the 
reason is, stumbling through one of those Dollar General stores looking 
for some last minute gifts, I stumbled across a section that had 
Gorilla Glue and Magic Stick'em Glue, and I thought, Boy, if I can get 
some of this stuff, first I would glue the top of the kitchen trash can 
so my wife's puppy won't continue to go in it. And then I thought, 
well, I'll use some of this glue to impress people that I can actually 
fix things. Then I thought, maybe I can do it when I'm performing 
marriages: instead of saying ``until death do us part,'' say ``until 
the glue wears out.''
  Then I thought, wouldn't it be great if we could glue ourselves to 
each other across the aisle. I mean, after all, it is only if we are 
sticking together that we're going to be able to address the problems 
that face this country.
  The truth of the matter is we already have some glue. One Nation 
under God--patriotic glue. We're supposed to work together, to stick 
together. Without us coming to the point where we really understand ``E 
pluribus unum''--out of many, one--this body, for the lack of glue, 
will not do the business of this country.

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