Steve Cohen

Mr. COHEN

Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz and Congressman Sires for their hard work on this, and my counterpart from Tennessee for her excellent work. With that, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlelady from Florida (Ms. Wasserman Schultz), as long as she doesn't mention anything about the Tennessee-Florida game on Saturday.

Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise today in strong support of House Resolution 57, a resolution recognizing the persistently high rates of drowning fatalities among children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3,582 unintentional and fatal drownings in the United States in 2005. This figure represents an average of 10 drowning deaths a day. Children are the most susceptible to fatal drowning incidents. In fact, drowning is the second most common cause of unintentional death among children ages 1 to 14. On top of this startling statistic, for every child who fatally drowns in the United States, there are four near-drowning incidents that require emergency care. These accidents can lead to brain damage and result in permanent disabilities ranging from loss of memory to the loss of all basic functions. Drowning rates among minority children greatly exceed those of their non-minority counterparts. The fatal drowning rate for African-American children is over three times that for Caucasian children. American Indian and Alaskan Native children have rates over two times as high as Caucasian children. Contributing to these disparities is limited access to swimming lessons. African Americans and Latinos are more likely to live below the poverty line, putting lessons that can cost hundreds of dollars per course out of reach. House Resolution 57 not only condemns the persistently high rates of drowning among children, but it also recognizes the hard work of organizations that promote access to swimming education and teach skills that will help save lives. I urge my colleagues to help bring awareness to this serious issue, and join me in supporting final passage of House Resolution 57. I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, we in this House of Representatives have the opportunity to participate and help shape history. Last night during the joint session, President Barack Obama was part of that great train of history of our Nation. He spoke in the great tradition of Teddy Roosevelt who first spoke about national health care, and Eleanor Roosevelt who talked about it, and Harry Truman who spoke 60 years ago from this well about that need in this Nation. And he spoke in the great tradition of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who saw that Medicaid and Medicare were passed in 1965. I was very, very proud to be a part of this body last night, and I will be even prouder when a vote comes up. Over the Speaker's rostrum engraved in stone is a quote of Daniel Webster: ``Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build on its institutions, promote all its great interest and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.'' Daniel Webster is calling to us to heed Barack Obama's call to pass national health care in the great tradition of American leaders and do something worthy to be remembered. I look forward to that opportunity.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I, like other Members of Congress, went home and had a townhall meeting on health care and met with many doctors. What I found is that the American public knows that the system is broken and that we need to change. The difficulty I have got in my district is I'm for a public option. But I'm not drawing a line in the sand to say I won't vote for a bill that improves the health care system, that takes care of the problem concerning preexisting conditions, that gives more wellness and preventative programs and that sees that we have more family doctors and health centers. For that, the liberals in my district, and I'm a liberal, are upset with me because I haven't said I won't vote for a bill that doesn't have a public option. On the other hand, there are people that are against health care at all, and if I vote for anything, they will be upset. Tonight the President of the United States will address the Nation. I plan to listen, and I plan to support the President of the United States in providing health care and making the greatest reforms in welfare moves for the people of our Nation and improvement in health care since 1965 when Medicaid and Medicare were passed. Those were great days for America.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 19) granting the consent and approval of Congress to amendments made by the State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the District of Columbia to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, Daniel Webster reminds us on a daily basis in a plaque, a stone engraved above the Speaker's rostrum, that in our time here in Congress we're supposed to do something that's worth being remembered, something valuable. Forty-four years ago today Medicare was signed into law. That Congress did something worthwhile. The Congress that produced Medicaid did something worthwhile. Both those Congresses were vilified, and people said both of those programs were socialism. Well, they were wrong; they were American. They were caring programs that have helped with people in sickness and getting them healthy in an affordable manner. This Congress can do something worthy of being remembered by passing national health care and taking care of people and extending Medicare and Medicaid to another group of Americans and making sure that we're no longer the only civilized industrialized country in the world that doesn't have health care for all of its citizens. It's time that we act and we do what Daniel Webster charges us to, and that's to do something worthy of being remembered. Nothing is more important than health care.

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Sam Schloss Lodge of B'nai B'rith in Memphis, Tennessee. Sam Schloss Lodge is one of the oldest B'nai B'rith lodges in the country and has the largest membership of any original Lodge. B'nai B'rith's mission is to engage in community service and promote Jewish rights. The lodge is involved in multiple service organizations in the Memphis area, including the Harwood Center for Developmentally Delayed Children and the Jewish Family Service of Memphis. The Lodge's most successful service project is the ``Care Bear'' project, which collects stuffed animals from the community and distributes them to abused and neglected children. I want to congratulate all of the members of the Sam Schloss Lodge, including President Leon Hellman for this tremendous milestone.

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Melissa Collins, an elementary school teacher from my district who will be honored by President Obama with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching for her work mentoring students. This is an honor awarded to teachers who do an exceptional job at mentoring students in the areas of mathematics and science. She is one of 100 educators who will receive a $10,000 award from the White House on behalf of the National Science Foundation, which she will use a portion of to help her continue to teach her students. Melissa teaches second grade students at John P. Freeman Optional School in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. While teaching others, this accomplished teacher is also working on improving her own education by studying for a doctorate degree at the University of Southern Mississippi. During a time in this country where math and science teachers are scarce, Melissa Collins exhibits the teaching skills necessary to inspire our children to learn. Melissa is a leader at the elementary school. The school principal sends new teachers to her classroom in order to observe her teaching style. In 2008, John P. Freeman Optional School was awarded the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Award, which recognizes academically superior schools across the nation. It is beyond a doubt that Melissa helped John P. Freeman School achieve this great honor. I want to commend and congratulate Melissa Collins on this great achievement.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I attended Vanderbilt University and graduated in 1971. My chancellor was a gentleman named Alexander Heard. Alexander Heard passed away last week at the age of 92. He was an exceptional educator, one of the best Tennessee or this Nation will ever know. During the tumultuous times of the 1960s, a student group invited both Dr. Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael to address the students at Vanderbilt University. Protests came in as expected. Chancellor Heard knew that colleges were about openness, about free speech and exchange of ideas. In fact, he said the university's obligation is not to protect students from ideas, but rather to expose them to ideas to help make them capable of handling them and hopefully having ideas. Chancellor Heard wrote quite a few texts on southern politics, was a respected academician as well as an educator. He was a gentleman, he was a scholar, he made Vanderbilt a great university. He will be missed.

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Mr. COHEN. I rise to thank Chairman Obey for his inclusion of $1 million to be directed to the National Center for Health Statistics. This was requested in the hopes that it would end up with some funds being used to study enhanced birth certificates across the Nation. The National Center for Health Statistics faces a funding shortage, inhibiting their ability to study these vital records which is a roadblock to understanding the high infant mortality rate that plagues our Nation, in particular my city of Memphis. We have a rate that is the highest in the country and rivals that of Third World nations. It's unacceptable in America. It's these types of programs that will help move America forward. We must work together to lower our Nation's infant mortality rate. It starts with gaining a statistical knowledge of why these deaths occur. I wholeheartedly support Chairman Obey's inclusion of the funding for the National Center for Health Statistics, and I urge a ``yes'' vote on the bill. Thank you for the time.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today the Federal minimum wage rises to $7.25 an hour. This Congress is proud that the previous Congress passed the minimum wage, and it went up in stair steps; and in these tough economic times, working people need help. They need help with all types of activities. This will put $1,100 in the pockets of working people. That means money for groceries, for rent, for school supplies, moneys that will help with this economic recovery, $5.5 billion over the next 12 months. One of the first votes I took in this Congress was to increase the minimum wage that had been held stagnant for decades. This will help 40,000 people in my district in Memphis and across the country. This Congress should be proud of its support for working families, but sad that it took so long to get this minimum wage to where it is. We need to help the working people, and we need to make sure we make this country a better country with health insurance for all.

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Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, this year marks the 35th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the single largest provider of civil legal aid for the poor in the nation. Established by Congress in 1974, LSC is a private, nonprofit organization that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. The people who come to LSC-funded programs for help are the most vulnerable among us: women seeking protection from abuse, mothers trying to obtain child support, families facing unlawful evictions or foreclosures that could leave them homeless, disaster victims trying to obtain federal emergency assistance or insurance payments to rebuild their lives. In fact, three out of four clients are women--many of whom are struggling to keep their children safe and their families together. LSC's work is more important than ever before, partly because of the impact of the current recession. Economic downturns affect the poor disproportionately and add to the pressures on the nation's public health and safety, child welfare, housing and jobs programs. Ensuring that the poor are adequately represented in the civil judicial system greatly improves their chances of keeping or securing basic necessities--the keys to stability and self-sufficiency. It also helps keep communities healthy. For low-income individuals and families, legal services often represent their only means of access to the justice system. Nearly 51 million people--including 17.6 million children--are eligible for LSC-funded services. LSC-funded programs close nearly one million cases per year nationwide and provide other assistance to more than five million people. The clients served are at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold, an income of about $27,000 a year for a family of four. An overwhelming demand for civil legal services exists. Based on a 2005 study, 50 percent of eligible potential clients requesting assistance from LSC-funded programs are turned away for lack of adequate program resources. At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes, and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal government to continue to address the civil legal needs of these vulnerable people as a national priority. Fortunately, LSC has broad bipartisan support for a strong federal role in access to equal justice efforts. On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Legal Services Corporation, I welcome my fellow Members of Congress to join me in recognizing the critical role that the Legal Services Corporation plays in helping America live up to its commitment to ensure equal access to justice for all. LSC and its grantees are to be commended for the vital work they do every day on behalf of clients in desperate need of counsel.

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Mr. COHEN. I speak in favor of the manager's amendment. This is a very important bill putting America back to work and working on infrastructure and transportation systems that are so important to America's economic vitality and growth. But also, rail transportation is important. Rail is important in many ways, both in a commercial way and in a passenger way. This particular manager's amendment puts an additional $3 million into the Federal Railroad Administration's Research and Development account. It's certainly the hope of many Members that this will allow for studies of high-speed rail, one of which will go from Little Rock to Memphis, and other studies, so that we can have more high-speed rail and less use of automobiles safe with the environment, and make passenger traffic more available to more people at a more reasonable cost.

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Mr. COHEN. Thank you. I appreciate the gentleman from Kentucky bringing up this topic and joining Dr. Kagen, my colleague; Mr. Sarbanes and Ms. Tsongas, who was with us, in discussion. I look at the inscription that is over the Speaker's chair here in the United States Capitol, and it's Daniel Webster. Daniel Webster says, ``Let us bring the resources of our Nation, our institutions together,'' and may we do something here that is worth remembering and something worthwhile that may be remembered. I can't think of anything that would be more worthwhile to Daniel Webster's spirit than we could do to have people remember this 111th Congress and to provide the health care that's been sought for so many generations. I think back to Harry Truman who really had this original concept and wanted to see national health care. You think about what Mr. Yarmuth talked about, the only industrialized nation on the Earth that does not have health care for its people. It is the greatest country on the face of the Earth, but we don't provide health care, and that's somehow an omission that this country has glaringly overlooked. Dr. King would certainly be in favor of such a bill because this is a Nation that has forgotten so many for so long, and we cannot continue to do that and be considered the greatest country on the face of the Earth. This bill that President Obama talked about today, and has gotten through the committees with Mr. Miller, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Waxman and Speaker Pelosi, who have worked so hard on it--and there is a comparable bill in the Senate--will see to it that we save money, $500 billion over the next 10 years in Medicare, securing for our seniors a Medicare system that will be affordable and available and offer quality care. It will see to it that we ferret out fraud and waste from the system and make savings that will help reduce our deficit that we're presently experiencing. So there is a fiscal mechanism to this bill as well. It will see that pre-existing conditions cannot be used, as Mr. Yarmuth's couple was used as an example, to deprive people of health care insurance. There is a lot of profit in the system now with advertisements on television, profits for insurance companies and tremendous salaries and profits that are there; and they need to be wrung out of the system. One way we're going to do it is by having this public option plan compete and force insurance companies, if they intend to remain active in the market, to compete with a national system that does not have those same costs and will keep costs down. This will be more quality at a cheaper cost and more people covered. You know, there is a tax that we already have in America. When you have 47 million people--maybe 50 million at this point--without health insurance and 14,000 more people each month who lose their health insurance, when those people get sick, they still get care someplace, sometime, but it's paid for by higher insurance premiums, it's paid for by higher taxes. Where there are community hospitals, they go to emergency rooms. You pay for it--the most expensive care possible in an emergency room which wouldn't be there if the people had insurance because they could go to their doctors--and it's paid for through property taxes by citizens in an expensive manner. This will be eliminated. So for all those cities, including mine, where we have The MED, a community hospital, a trauma center that treats a lot of people that don't have insurance at an expensive rate in the emergency room, those people will have insurance, and they won't be coming to the emergency room, and it won't cost our taxpayers as much which means that that trauma center will be available for trauma care, as it was intended. In case there is a disaster, it will be available as well and that trauma center can survive. There won't be this tax that's put on everybody for taking care of the uninsured in uncompensated care, which hospitals do, and just charge it to you in a higher bill that you get from your physician or from your health care provider. We're paying for it but without any controls. So the system is really out of control. It needs to be restrained. Now Mr. Yarmuth talked about Canada. And I know that we probably don't want to compare anything we're doing here--except for hockey--to Canada. But I was with a Canadian minister yesterday in Memphis--not a minister in the clerical sense but a government official; and he told me that a lot of people compare our system to yours, he said, ``You know, our people live to an average of 81 years of age, and your people live to 78.'' He said, ``The increase in inflation in our health care is 1 percent a year, and in your system it's 10 percent a year.'' He mentioned some other figures, and this was his perspective. He said, ``I wouldn't trade our system for yours for anything.'' Our system is the most expensive health care on the face of the Earth, but it's not the best. And we're paying for it. And that's wrong. Not enough people get health care. I'm happy to be a part of this Congress, to support this bill with a strong public plan that will see to it that we can compete with the insurance industry to keep their costs down and to see that everybody has access to health care as this plan will. I would like to yield to my Wisconsin namesake Steve and, as my father was a doctor, a fine doctor, Mr. Kagen from Wisconsin.

Mr. COHEN. And if you keep it, you are probably going to get it cheaper because where the uninsured will be insured, and you won't be paying for them through that hidden tax.

Mr. COHEN. Thank you, Dr. Kagen. Before I yield back to Mr. Yarmuth, I would just like to ask him a question. If you have an insurance policy now that you like, can you keep it?

Mr. COHEN. Thank you, sir.

Mr. COHEN. I was thinking of an old saying, and you might know where it comes from. You know, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and what was the origin of that? Does that not apply to the idea of having wellness programs?

Mr. COHEN. I would like to ask you two questions before we yield to another Member who wants to participate. What's going to happen with the doughnut hole? The seniors are very concerned about the doughnut hole. Will we be working on that?

Mr. COHEN. Before we yield back to Mr. Yarmuth to close, I just want to thank Mr. Ryan for bringing up the issue of bankruptcy. I chair the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee of Judiciary, and next week we're going to have a hearing on bankruptcies and health care. Health care is the major cause of bankruptcies in this country, and Elizabeth Edwards will be one of our witnesses. But when people go bankrupt because of high medical bills, then other folks lose out because they don't get paid either. Merchants don't get paid because of that bankruptcy. So that's another cost of not having this health care system, and I want to thank each of you.

Mr. COHEN. And I thought it was, too. But doesn't that apply to this program where we have wellness programs now, and if you can pay for wellness programs and preventative care, you don't have to pay for that emergency room care? It's as simple as a traditional slogan like that, a saying comes from Saturday Evening Post or wherever, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound, and that's where we're going to save a lot of money.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the distinguished Representative from California (Ms. Watson) for the time. H. Res. 476 celebrates the 30th anniversary of Black Music Month. It was first introduced by President Jimmy Carter, and President Carter recognized the influence--I guess, the Waldons kind of helped President Carter get going in Georgia, in Macon, Georgia, and of course that was James Brown, and there were a whole lot of folks there that Jimmy Carter was impressed with and the Allman Brothers, too, but he certainly was a James Brown guy in Georgia. I was at an event this weekend, Mr. Speaker, in Memphis at Anthony F. Elmore's home honoring African culture, and there was a gentleman who played the drums at the beginning of the presentation. And after he finished he made a comment. He said, Without Africa, there would not be a beat. There wouldn't be a beat. And I thought about that and I thought about this resolution and realized that he was correct. The beat's what it's about, a lot of folks believe. It's what makes music what it is or rock and roll or blues or jazz. A lot of times, I mean it's lyrics and so many things, but the beat's what it is, and that's what's unique about this contribution to music is the beat. It came from the Mississippi River. It came from the Delta. Memphis is the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll. It's my hometown, and St. Louis had the blues, too. W.C. Handy was from Memphis and a great innovator, and he spent time in both Memphis and in St. Louis. And then if you spin off a little bit to Kansas City, Charlie Parker, who was really the father of bebop and jazz, and Kansas City, where they've got a jazz museum, and he got a special kind of music going and went to New York with Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach and some other jazz greats and brought a jazz form that I guess had its roots not only in Kansas City, but also in New Orleans with Louis Armstrong and James Booker, who was such a great keyboard performer and gave birth to folks like Professor Longhair that tickled the ivories in a special manner that's the New Orleans style. It's really a gumbo of music that comes out of New Orleans with the Neville Brothers, the Marsalis family and Louis Armstrong, who did such a special music out of New Orleans. It all emanated from the Delta, and it came from--whether it be gospel, as Ms. Watson commented, or blues, it evolved and brought about a new art form. In Memphis, we had Stax Records, where Otis Redding from Georgia came to record his music. Isaac Hayes, my good friend and who was a chief in Ghana and passed just about a year ago this month, produced Shaft, and he took a special experience to Los Angeles with the Watts Music Festival. And Isaac Hayes was performance art and just beyond music. He was a unique individual who took a certain style and a certain music. Isaac never knew how to read music but he knew how to write it and produce it, and he was a genuine American, unique musician and hero. Isaac Hayes came out of Memphis, the Bar-Kays and so many people out of Stax Records. There was also Hi Records in Memphis where Willie Mitchell produced Al Green. And Memphis is very proud of its musical heritage, which is preserved in the Stax Soulful Music where the Stax Records were on McLemore, and at the same time there was Motown in Detroit with Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and the Supremes and on and on and on. Memphis and Detroit both are very proud of our musical traditions and histories, and we support those; Memphis in particular, where Elvis Presley was a transformative individual that took an African American musical heritage and combined it with some Tennessee country or rockabilly and produced rock and roll. And he, like Michael Jackson, were crossover figures that had a major influence on American society because they told youth that race wasn't an issue. The music got beyond race. America has had a problem over its history with race, and one thing Elvis Presley did is it told a lot of young white people that it was cool to shake your leg and to like music and to show some emotion and expression. And Michael Jackson showed a lot of people that what he produced was fine in different cultures, and it wasn't necessarily one race that liked that particular music or another and was a transformative effect. The reason we celebrate Black Music Month is because of the tremendous contributions that this country has received from musicians that are African American. And whether it's jazz, whether it's blues, whether it's gospel with Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin and other people from the pulpit, or whether it's other forms where Nat King Cole or Sammy Davis or Lena Horne made such an impression or Marian Anderson, it's a particularly special place and it's allowed, I think, a transcendent voice for a civil rights movement. Harry Belafonte did calypso, a different type of music, but Harry Belafonte was strong in the civil rights movement and helping move this country forward. And I think there was a lot of African American music that helped make the civil rights movement happen and make people understand, by identifying with performers in music in ways they otherwise could not identify with African Americans because of our segregated society, about how wrong it was that segregation existed and allow an opportunity for people to see that from a more personal, visceral level, and to make this country change and become the more perfect union that it needs to become and to live up to the ideals that our Founding Fathers had about a society where all men were created equal, which really wasn't true for so many years. I think music has had a great influence, and black music has had an influence on our country that is special, and the reason we honor Black Music Month is we remember those ideals and remember these people that were creative in our society over the years. Some young people don't know about jazz. They don't know about a Lionel Hampton and what he could do with a xylophone or some of the other great performers, and we need to know that history and revere it. I had a dear friend named Warren Zevon who died in 2003. He was a folk singer, a rock and roller, but he knew he was going to die. And when he was close to death, he talked with a man named Jorge Calderon who cowrote with him, and they were talking about dying. And he said to him, he said, Warren, it's not bad. He said, You will get to see Miles. And here was rock and roll folk singers, and what were they talking about was Miles Davis because he transcended music and race. Miles Davis, he was something special, and there were so many performers like that. And that's the reason why it's important that we recognize that heritage and that history, what it's meant to America, not just in entertainment but in social change, and that's why I'm proud to join the 70 cosponsors and to speak in behalf of this resolution and ask that we pass H. Res. 476, that we encourage schools and teachers to teach the arts, to teach music and to teach this heritage so that people understand how music can really move a country and a society forward.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, when President Obama came into office, there was a hole in the ideas of America and the policy of America as great as the Grand Canyon, one of our great treasures. Unfortunately, the lack of ideas in policy, which shouldn't be a hallmark of this country, was so great that President Obama has had to do much, and this 111th Congress has tried to help him. We didn't have an energy policy, and the flora and the fauna of this Earth and this country's energy independence and this country's reliance on fossil fuels is a very scary proposition. We are the only industrialized country in the world without a health care policy, and we have 47 million people without health care. That is unacceptable. Our position among the nations of the world was at a low ebb. President Obama has restored that. This Congress is trying to put America where it should be as a place of great ideas and policies, and we have got an 8-year hole to fill. It has been difficult. But we are doing the best we can with the difficult situation we have been given. I'm proud to work with President Obama and this Congress and put America and the ship of state afloat and going in the right direction.

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Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to applaud the efforts of Ghana in promoting good governance and civic participation. President Obama will wrap up the third leg of his international trip in Ghana. He will be there today. I am reminded of the important role this democratic nation plays in the international world. Ghana is an active participant in the United Nations and the African Union. In its region, it has been extremely active in international peacekeeping. Ghana, the first state in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain its independence, has shown that it is a stable nation whose government and people are accountable to one another. These acts are a good first step in developing future relationships between our Nation and Ghana. One of my constituents, five-time karate and kickboxing champion, Anthony ``Amp'' Elmore, fulfilled his lifelong dream by visiting Ghana in 1998. The champ visited Accra, and it has changed his life. After returning to Memphis, Amp developed his vision of educating and enlightening people about the cultural and economic importance of Africa as a continent, as well as Ghana. At his home and throughout the city, he showcased African artifacts, fabrics and arts. This weekend, on Friday and Saturday both, he will be honoring Africa at his home and inviting the public and having a fashion show and an African dinner. I will be there. Next year, I will visit Ghana and hope to develop trade between our city, Ghana and our Nation.