Tim Walberg: “I thank the gentlelady. I thank you for commanding this time to call attention to people, heroes of life like Father…”

“I thank the gentlelady. I thank you for commanding this time to call attention to people, heroes of life like Father Frank Pavone. Congressman Ron Paul, one of our colleagues, shared a poem with me on the floor one day. It caught my attention. It's called ``The Anvil'': Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith door, and heard the anvil ring the vesper chime; Looking in, I saw upon the floor old hammers, worn with beating years of time. `How many anvils have you had,' said I, `To wear and batter all these hammers so?' `Just one,' said he, and then with twinkling eye, `The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.' And so, thought I, the anvil called the master's Word, for ages skeptic blows have beat upon; Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard, The anvil is unharmed, and the hammers gone. Father Pavone and others who command the interest in life understand the power of truth, the truth that comes with the Creator, a Creator who has designed life itself for good and for the best interests of all. In our great document, the Declaration of Independence, it said: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable, God given rights, among them, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. {time} 2130 And so, Mr. Speaker, I would just refer back to the truth.…”