[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15860-15861]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            WELCOMING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I join with my colleagues in welcoming the 
distinguished President of the Republic of Korea to the United States 
of America to confer with our great President.
  In 1950, I visited Korea for the first time as a combat infantryman. 
When I left, it was a nightmare, and I thought I would never want to go 
back to this place ever again.
  To see this country now; to see what, out of the ashes, it has 
become; to see, from a very poor country, what a great democracy it 
has; to see the leadership of this great President; to see what a 
friend we have in that region when we are having a horrible time in 
economics and peace and in war, that this country always has our back; 
the great contributions Korea has made to this country, those that have 
become citizens, makes me proud to be an American.
  So when she comes here, the Congress is so proud that some of us were 
able to make just a small contribution to keep her from falling into 
the hands of the Communists and then becoming our seventh great trading 
partner, a leader of the region and a leader of the world.

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