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Tim Walberg: I thank my friend from New Jersey, again, for this opportunity to stand for life. It will be exciting to have the…

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
I thank my friend from New Jersey, again, for this opportunity to stand for life. It will be exciting to have the demonstration, and I say that in a positive sense, a demonstration that is going on this next week, again, of people demonstrating that there is a love for life, for children, for women and for men, who have been caught in the lie of abortion, who have been sold a message that goes against, in most of their cases, goes against their normal, commonsense thought, a thought that says life is something that should be sustained, it should be seen as a blessing, and we should praise that opportunity. Mr. Speaker, my wife and I have always seen it as a high privilege to stand on a platform and look out across a crowd of hundreds of thousands of individuals who have love on their faces for life, for fellow humans, and for people caught in very difficult situations with a great desire to tell the truth that there is a difference, there is an opportunity that they can share with others that could experience hope. Today, Mr. Speaker, we sit in a Chamber that has above your rostrum the motto of the United States of America that says ``In God We Trust.'' And so rather than going on with further comments that I would make from my own thoughts, I would turn to the thoughts of God Himself, more specifically words that were uttered by a man, a king, a very wise king who was very human, as well, a king who was classified by God Himself as being a man after My own heart.…
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan
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Jan 15, 2014

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