E2384 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks December 10, 2008 

Mexicans helped by her work over nearly 

three decades. 

Every girl who has experienced New Mexico’s Girls Ranch; every boy treated at Carrie 

Tingley Children’s Hospital; every child protected by the Children, Youth and Families 

Department: all owe a debt of gratitude to the 

inimitable Alice King. She will be remembered 

for her charm; her down-to-earth dignity; and, 

her fierce commitment to public service. 

Alice’s journey from the ranches of Moriarty 

to the Governor’s Mansion might have 

changed a woman with less courage and confidence. But Alice never forgot the values she 

had been raised with. She never turned her 

back on the small towns of our state. And she 

never lost the strong sense of community obligation that she learned in Moriarty. She remained rooted in a place and a time where 

your neighbor’s children were your responsibility, and she brought that sense of duty to 

her work in Santa Fe and around the State. 

Jill and I send our prayers to Alice’s son 

Gary and the rest of her remarkable family. 

They, and the rest of New Mexico, have lost 

a truly great woman. 

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IN RECOGNITION OF THE PHOEBUS 

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM 

HON. ROBERT C. ‘‘BOBBY’’ SCOTT OF VIRGINIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I 

rise on behalf of myself, Congresswoman 

THELMA DRAKE and Congressman ROB

WITTMAN to call attention to a group of young 

students from Hampton, Virginia, who have 

distinguished themselves, their school, their 

community and the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

The Phoebus High School Phantoms football team had a remarkable 2008 season. On 

December 6, the Phoebus High School Phantoms won their 4th state football championship 

this decade, defeating Dinwiddie High School 

of Dinwiddie 37–13, at Lane Stadium in 

Blacksburg, Virginia. 

The Phantoms finished the season with a 

15–0 record. Phoebus never trailed in a game 

this season, and scored 720 points while allowing 53. This latest championship is just another accolade for the City of Hampton’s 

youngest school, founded in 1975. The football team, under Coach Bill Dee has won the 

State Football Championship three previous 

times: 2001, 2002, and 2006. 

Phoebus High’s legacy of excellence is not 

limited to just the field of athletics. Under the 

Direction of Principal Robert Johnson, the 

Phoebus faculty seeks to inspire students to 

strive for excellence and achievement in the 

classroom, in their extracurricular activities 

and in their communities. Phoebus has two innovative programs that expand the learning 

experience outside of the traditional classroom. Phoebus hosts the Hampton School Division’s Center for High Technology. This 

magnet career academy includes classes in 

pre-engineering, design and drafting, and 

Cisco network administration, preparing students for college classes and jobs in the technology sector. Phoebus is also home to the 

Blue Phantom Inn. This student-run restaurant 

gives students an opportunity to develop their 

culinary arts skills, and was nationally recognized in Southern Living magazine. 

The Phantoms’ excellence in football is also 

characteristic of the quality of athletics in the 

Peninsula District of Virginia. Phoebus High 

School’s championship this year marked the 

12th time in the last fifteen years that a Peninsula District team has won a state title in football. To quote from our hometown newspaper, 

the Daily Press, ‘‘High school football on the 

Peninsula is championship football.’’ 

We would like to extend our enthusiastic 

congratulations to Coach Bill Dee, his coaching staff and all of the players on the Phoebus 

High School Phantoms, the 2008 Group AAA 

Division 5 Virginia High School League state 

football champions. 

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SUNSET MEMORIAL 

HON. TRENT FRANKS OF ARIZONA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 

Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Madam Speaker, I 

stand once again before this House with yet 

another Sunset Memorial. 

It is December 10, 2008 in the land of the 

free and the home of the brave, and before 

the sunset today in America, almost 4,000 

more defenseless unborn children were killed 

by abortion on demand. That’s just today, Mr. 

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 13,106 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, Mr. 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. 

Mr. 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.’’ Mr. 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. Mr. 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 Mr. 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 13,106 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. 

Mr. 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 10, 2008, 13,106 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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BIDDING FAREWELL TO THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

HON. MARK UDALL OF COLORADO

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 

Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, 

when the 110th Congress finally adjourns sine 

die, I will come to the end of my time as a 

Member of the House of Representatives. 

I look forward to service in the other body 

upon the convening of the 111th Congress, 

but today I want to express my appreciation 

for all that it has meant to me to have the 

privilege of membership in this extraordinary 

body with you and with all the other Members—past and present—with whom I have 

the honor of serving. 

We’ve all heard that it takes more than moving in to make a house a home. 

But I have to say that in my case, I have 

very much felt at home here in the House 

since the 106th Congress first convened in 

1999, because so many people went out of 

their way to welcome me and to help me learn 

what I needed to know. 

Thanks to them, I was able to do a better 

job of trying to properly represent the people 

of Colorado’s Second Congressional District 

and to contribute to the search for ways to advance their interests and those of our state 

and our country as a whole.