Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, H.R. 4395, introduced by Representative Todd Platts of Pennsylvania, would authorize a boundary change at Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station. Madam Speaker, it was here that President Lincoln arrived to honor the war dead on the field of battle and deliver the address that would forever define the Civil War as a battle for the freedom and the rights of all Americans. Under the proposed legislation, the National Park Service would take over management of the train station from the Borough of Gettysburg, and community partners would staff it. The bill would also expand the park boundaries to include additional historic lands and would add protections for the resources of this hallowed site. Madam Speaker, H.R. 4395 has broad bipartisan support, and we urge its adoption by the House today. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The legislation allows the National Park Service to accept the donation of a small parcel of land that will allow it to better interpret the historic battle for which the park was created. It also authorizes the Park Service to purchase the historic train depot where Abraham Lincoln arrived and departed from his historic visit in 1863. I am told that there was a time when that historic train depot served as a pizza parlor.…”