E2346 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks December 9, 2008 

IN RECOGNITION OF HAL SHELTON 

AND THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA SCORE FOR WINNING THE 2008 SMALL BUSINESS 

ADMINISTRATION DISTRICT DIRECTOR’S AWARD 

HON. CHRIS VAN HOLLEN OF MARYLAND

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 

Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Madam Speaker, congratulations to Hal Shelton and the Board of 

the Washington Metropolitan Area SCORE for 

receiving the 2008 Small Business Administration District Director’s Award for their contribution to the training, counseling and mentoring 

of small businesses. 

Hal Shelton and the more than 50 Washington Metro Area SCORE volunteers were 

recognized for substantially assisting the SBA 

DC district office in providing business counseling to military service members at Walter 

Reed Hospital; organizing workshops for local 

8(a) businesses; and for exceeding all goals 

for the number of DC-area clients who received business mentoring and advice. 

Since 1964, SCORE ‘‘Counselors to America’s Businesses,’’ have helped 8 million aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners 

through counseling and business workshops. 

More than 10,500 volunteer business counselors in 389 chapters serve their communities 

through entrepreneur education dedicated to 

the formation, growth and success of small 

businesses. 

For their commitment to preserving the reputation of American small businesses as 

among the most productive in the world and 

for their years of dedicated public service, I 

commend Hal Shelton and the members of 

Washington Metropolitan Area SCORE for receiving this important honor. 

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HONORING CONNOR WAYNE 

CHOICE 

HON. SAM GRAVES OF MISSOURI

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 

Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly 

pause to recognize Connor Wayne Choice of 

Liberty, Missouri. Connor is a very special 

young man who has exemplified the finest 

qualities of citizenship and leadership by taking an active part in the Boy Scouts of America, Troop 1376, and earning the most prestigious award of Eagle Scout. 

Connor has been very active with his troop, 

participating in many Scout activities. Over the 

many years Connor has been involved with 

Scouting, he has not only earned numerous 

merit badges, but also the respect of his family, peers, and community. 

Madam Speaker, I proudly ask you to join 

me in commending Connor Wayne Choice for 

his accomplishments with the Boy Scouts of 

America and for his efforts put forth in achieving the highest distinction of Eagle Scout. 

SUNSET MEMORIAL 

HON. TRENT FRANKS OF ARIZONA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 

Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Madam Speaker, I 

stand once again before this House with yet 

another Sunset Memorial. 

It is December 9, 2008, in the land of the 

free and the home of the brave, and before 

the sun set today in America, almost 4,000 

more defenseless unborn children were killed 

by abortion on demand. That’s just today 

Madam Speaker. That’s more than the number of innocent lives lost on September 11 in 

this country, only it happens every day. 

It has now been exactly 13,105 days since 

the tragedy called Roe v. Wade was first 

handed down. Since then, the very foundation 

of this Nation has been stained by the blood 

of almost 50 million of its own children. Some 

of them, Madam Speaker, cried and screamed 

as they died, but because it was amniotic fluid 

passing over the vocal cords instead of air, we 

couldn’t hear them. 

All of them had at least four things in common. First, they were each just little babies 

who had done nothing wrong to anyone, and 

each one of them died a nameless and lonely 

death. And each one of their mothers, whether 

she realizes it or not, will never be quite the 

same. And all the gifts that these children 

might have brought to humanity are now lost 

forever. Yet even in the glare of such tragedy, 

this generation still clings to a blind, invincible 

ignorance while history repeats itself and our 

own silent genocide mercilessly annihilates the 

most helpless of all victims, those yet unborn. 

Madam Speaker, perhaps it’s time for those 

of us in this Chamber to remind ourselves of 

why we are really all here. Thomas Jefferson 

said, ‘‘The care of human life and its happiness and not its destruction is the chief and 

only object of good government.’’ The phrase 

in the 14th amendment capsulizes our entire 

Constitution. It says, ‘‘No State shall deprive 

any person of life, liberty or property without 

due process of law.’’ Madam Speaker, protecting the lives of our innocent citizens and 

their constitutional rights is why we are all 

here. 

The bedrock foundation of this Republic is 

the clarion declaration of the self-evident truth 

that all human beings are created equal and 

endowed by their Creator with the unalienable 

rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Every conflict and battle our Nation has 

ever faced can be traced to our commitment 

to this core, self-evident truth. 

It has made us the beacon of hope for the 

entire world. Madam Speaker, it is who we 

are. 

And yet today another day has passed, and 

we in this body have failed again to honor that 

foundational commitment. We have failed our 

sworn oath and our God-given responsibility 

as we broke faith with nearly 4,000 more innocent American babies who died today without 

the protection we should have given them. 

So Madam Speaker, let me conclude this 

Sunset Memorial in the hope that perhaps 

someone new who heard it tonight will finally 

embrace the truth that abortion really does kill 

little babies; that it hurts mothers in ways that 

we can never express; and that 13,105 days 

spent killing nearly 50 million unborn children 

in America is enough; and that it is time that 

we stood up together again, and remembered 

that we are the same America that rejected 

human slavery and marched into Europe to arrest the Nazi Holocaust; and we are still courageous and compassionate enough to find a 

better way for mothers and their unborn babies than abortion on demand. 

Madam Speaker, as we consider the plight 

of unborn America tonight, may we each remind ourselves that our own days in this sunshine of life are also numbered and that all too 

soon each one of us will walk from these 

Chambers for the very last time. 

And if it should be that this Congress is allowed to convene on yet another day to come, 

may that be the day when we finally hear the 

cries of innocent unborn children. May that be 

the day when we find the humanity, the courage, and the will to embrace together our 

human and our constitutional duty to protect 

these, the least of our tiny, little American 

brothers and sisters from this murderous 

scourge upon our Nation called abortion on 

demand. 

It is December 9, 2008, 13,105 days since 

Roe versus Wade first stained the foundation 

of this Nation with the blood of its own children; this in the land of the free and the home 

of the brave. 

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REMARKS ON INAUGURAL BILL 

HON. EMANUEL CLEAVER OF MISSOURI

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 

Mr. CLEAVER. Madame Speaker, on January 20, this Nation will lay witness to a Presidential Inauguration like no other in our country’s history. As my fellow Americans travel to 

the District of Columbia, in some cases without a place to stay, just to be part of this historic occasion, we must bear in mind that this 

event stands as a symbol of democracy, and 

that tickets should not be bought and sold to 

the highest bidder. It is egregious that tickets 

that are given out freely would then be sold for 

thousands of dollars. Even worse, are false 

promises of tickets that are made to individuals and families, who are then left with empty 

pockets and tales of disillusion. 

For these reasons, I have introduced a bill 

that will make it a crime to knowingly sell tickets to the Presidential Inaugural ceremony. 

This bill will also make it a criminal act to 

produce counterfeit tickets for the Inaugural 

ceremony. I am hopeful that this bill will work 

to stop the unscrupulous, yet devastating actions of the few, and preserve the dignity of 

this historic and celebratory occasion for the 

many. 

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HONORING RYAN RUSSELL 

DONALDSON 

HON. SAM GRAVES OF MISSOURI

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 

Mr. GRAVES. Madam Speaker, I proudly 

pause to recognize Ryan Russell Donaldson 

of Liberty, Missouri. Ryan is a very special 

young man who has exemplified the finest 


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