On the recordSeptember 23, 1997
I rise, then, in support of H.R. 2414. And I congratulate the chairman and ranking member on a very innovative and worthwhile bill that manages to commemorate and make savings for the Treasury at the same time. Would that we could more often accomplish this dual feat. We come to the floor, however, to remind our colleagues that this is a union of 50 States, four insular areas and the District of Columbia. I know it is important to all of us to think of our country in all of its fullness. There are, of course, among us those of us who still sting from the fact that the vote that we won on the House floor was, in fact, taken back when the majority arrived. My taxpaying citizens have not forgotten that. It is one thing to take back a vote that we won on the floor and was approved by the courts. It is quite another to exclude our jurisdictions from a mere commemorative act.
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