On the recordDecember 8, 2010
I thank the gentleman for yielding and for giving us this opportunity this evening to come to the floor of the House on behalf of many children in America. It is one of those evenings when we can associate ourselves very directly with the aspirations of our Founding Fathers. How blessed we were at the beginning of our country, even before our country began, that these brave and courageous people stood up for independence for our country. And when they established our country, they designed the great seal of the country and it said, ``Novus Ordo Seclorum,'' a new order for the ages. How confident they were, how optimistic they were. No country in the history of the world had ever had founders founding on a new principle of equality of people and freedom, separating themselves from a great military power by winning independence and saying this was about a new order for the future. And they could say that with confidence because they had a commitment to make the future better from one generation to the next. That became known as the American Dream, eventually, and people flocked to our shores to be part of the American Dream. And when they came, they brought their hopes, their aspirations, their determination, their optimism for a better future for their families and for the next generation.
