Mike Pence: “I rise in strong and unqualified support of H. Res. 521, no Indiana exceptions, at least not today. I congratulate…”

“I rise in strong and unqualified support of H. Res. 521, no Indiana exceptions, at least not today. I congratulate Representative Gillibrand, as my colleague from California did, for this important resolution. For close to a century, Lake Placid has been central to America's participation and achievements in international sports. It's the only site in North America to have hosted more than one Winter Olympics, both in 1932 and in 1980. Moreover, in 1980, and if you haven't seen the movie, it was the site of one of America's greatest moments, when the U.S. national hockey team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union. Walt Disney films recently created an extraordinary motion picture remembering that miracle on ice. It was not only a victory for one hockey team over another, but for millions it symbolized the triumph of freedom over tyranny and seemed to be a part of setting into motion in 1980 what we would see with the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. It forced you out of that, so in a very real sense, Lake Placid is important in the history of freedom as well as in the history of sport.”