Volume 154, No. 121 covering the 2nd Session of the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“SUNSET MEMORIAL” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1545-E1547 on July 23, 2008.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
SUNSET MEMORIAL
______
HON. TRENT FRANKS
of arizona
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Madam Speaker, I stand once again before this House with yet another Sunset Memorial.
It is July 23, 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 12,966 days since the tragedy called Roe v. Wade was first handed down. Since then, the very foundation of this Nation heen 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 12,966 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 July 23, 2008, 12,966 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.
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Thursday, July 24, 2008 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JULY 259:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To continue hearings to examine financial institutions located in offshore tax havens, focusing on ways to strengthen United States domestic and international tax enforcement efforts.
SD-342
JULY 299:30 a.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the magnitude of outstanding payroll tax debt, focusing on the policies and procedures that are used to collect unpaid payroll taxes.
SD-34210 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the state of the insurance industry, focusing on the current regulatory and oversight structure.
SD-538
Environment and Public Works
Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), focusing on a recent court decision and its implications.
SD-406
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA), focusing on protecting workers from dangerous dust at the workplace.
SD-430
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the future of United States trade policy, focusing on perspectives from former
United States trade representatives.
SD-215
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine music and radio in the 21st century, focusing on assuring fair rates and rules across the platforms.
SD-22611 a.m.
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related
Agencies Subcommittee
Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee
To hold joint hearings to examine food marketing to children, focusing on ways to make it safer.
SD-1922:15 p.m.
Foreign Relations
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
S-116, Capitol2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
Closed business meeting to consider pending intelligence matters.
SH-219
JULY 309 a.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine hiring at the Department of
Justice.
SD-22610 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine ways to improve consumer protection in the prepaid calling card market.
SR-253
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the White House and the
Environmental protection Agency (EPA), focusing on impeding congressional oversight.
SD-22612 noon
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Disaster Recovery Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine planning for post-catastrophe housing needs, focusing on if the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) has developed an effective strategy for housing large numbers of citizens displaced by a disaster.
SD-5621 p.m.
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine S. J.Res. 45, expressing the consent and approval of Congress to an inter-state compact regarding water resources in the Great Lakes--
St. Lawrence River Basin.
SD-2262:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 1816, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to establish a commemorative trail in connection with the Women's Rights National
Historical Park to link properties that are historically and thematically associated with the struggle for women's suffrage, S. 2093, to amend the
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in the State of Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 2535, to revise the boundary of the Martin Van Buren National Historic
Site, S. 2561, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme study to identify sites and resources to commemorate and interpret the Cold War, S.
3011, to amend the Palo Alto Battlefield National
Historic Site Act of 1991 to expand the boundaries of the historic site, S. 3113, to reinstate the Interim
Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, pending the issuance of a final rule for off-road vehicle use by the National Park Service, S. 3148, to modify the boundary of the Oregon Caves National
Monument, S. 3158, to extend the authority for the Cape
Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, S. 3226, to rename the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic
Site in the State of Kentucky as the ``Abraham Lincoln
Birthplace National Historical Park'', S. 3247, to provide for the designation of the River Raisin
National Battlefield Park in the State of Michigan, and
H.R. 5137, to ensure that hunting remains a purpose of the New River Gorge National River.
SD-366
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
JULY 319:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine Indian health service management, focusing on lost property, wasteful spending and document fabrication.
SD-5621 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Disaster Recovery Subcommittee
To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency
Communications, Preparedness to examine ways to ensure the delivery of donated goods to survivors of catastrophes.
311, Cannon Building2 p.m.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine reliance on smart power, focusing on reforming the foreign assistance bureaucracy.
SD-3422:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
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