Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 197) to commend the American Sail Training Association for its advancement of character building under sail and for its advancement of international goodwill, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 197 Whereas the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) is an educational nonprofit corporation whose declared mission is ``to encourage character building through sail training, promote sail training to the North American public and support education under sail''; Whereas since its founding in 1973, ASTA has promoted these goals through-- (1) support of character building experiences aboard traditionally rigged sail training vessels; (2) a program of scholarship funds supporting such experiences; (3) a long history of tall ship races, rallies, and maritime festivals dating back as far as 1976; (4) the Tall Ships Challenge series of races and maritime festivals which-- (A) have been conducted each year since 2001; (B) have reached an aggregate audience to date of some 8,000,000 spectators; (C) have had a cumulative economic impact of over $400,000,000 for over 30 host communities; and (D) involve sail training vessels, trainees, and crews from all the coasts of the United States and around the world; (5) support of its membership of more than 200 sail training vessels, embracing barks, barques, barkentines, brigantines, brigs, schooner…”