I want to tell the committee, Mr. Chairman, that God must be for this bill because I got up this morning at 4:00 in Ennis, Texas, outside of Dallas and braved icy roads and 20-degree temperatures to get to DFW airport when my good friends at American Airlines left exactly on time and God put a 200-mile-an-hour tailwind behind the plane and I got here an hour early. So that tells me that God is for this bill.
Expressing his belief that divine support favors the bill due to his travel experience.
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