Wayne Gilchrest: “I may not look like a Member of Congress, the Scotch-Irish descent, but I have been stopped many times questioning…”

“I may not look like a Member of Congress, the Scotch-Irish descent, but I have been stopped many times questioning whether I was a Member of Congress. We are debating here tonight. It is a positive thing that we debate the issues. Oliver Wendell Holmes, a physician, a jurist, and a poet, said that the Constitution was made for people with differing opinions. We are seeing that to an extent tonight. But this is a Nation of laws, not of rhetoric. This is a Nation where we have one man, one vote. And we are committed to that. A World War II veteran who is committed to his country and always optimistic and positive about what America stood for says our lives are made up of five things: Humility, I ask that our colleagues tonight look at who has humility; commitment to justice; compassion to people; faith in the American people; and faith that people will be responsible, will be decent, will be honest, and allow themselves to have dignity. The last word he used was love, not for self-serving reasons but love for the things that America, which is still a great country, stands for.”