House Proceeding 09-30-09 on Sep 30th, 2009 :: 0:12:00 to 0:14:50
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Vic Snyder: lives. liberty over tyranny, stop spending money we don't have and government taking money in the name of government power. the people have had enough, they do not want to be treated like subjects, subjects of government control. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

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Speech By: Vic Snyder

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Vic Snyder: mr. snyder. the gentleman is recognized for five mints. -- minutes. mr. snyder: madam speaker, today, september 30, is the birthday of mrs. ruth lincoln. i say today is her birthday because unfortunately she passed away two weeks ago, but she had been very much looking forward

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Vic Snyder: to turning 112 years old today. this is a picture i took of her about a year ago. this is my son, this is mrs. ruth lincoln. she was born in 1897, and what i like about this picture is, mrs. lincoln, born in 1897, spans 20th century with my little boy who was born in 2006.

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Vic Snyder: a 21st century little boy connecting with the 19th century. she was born in a log cabin in oklahoma in 1897. she married ben lincoln. her first vote, her first presidential election vote, was the election in which women in this country were allowed to vote for the first time and despite her

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Vic Snyder: harding was elected president over her vote to for mr. james cox. she graduated from college from oklahoma a&m which became oklahoma state. i visited several times with mrs. lincoln in the last several years. she loved growing old. she told me how she loved growing old and i became very -- it became very important to her to find out exactly how old was

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Vic Snyder: the oldest person in the county, was she the oldest person in arkansas, would at some point she become the oldest person in the united states? she lo old. she loved bridge and was an avid player until late in her life. she loved her family and she had a lot of family. in fact, many of you know

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Vic Snyder: senator blanch lincoln who is married to her grandson, steve. it's difficult to say that someone who is two weeks short of turning 112 died unexpectedly. but a lot of us in central arkansas lood forward to mrs. ruth lincoln's birthday. she would always do something special. i remember one a couple years ago, i think it was her 110th, when she prided herself on going

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Vic Snyder: out in the middle of a bridge in arkansas, the big dam bridge, to cross the arkansas river and had quite a festivity out there, which she walked some on the her wheelchair. in the last few months she had been dwindling. her it daughter was quoted in saying she knew it was her time but i kno enough to know she was hoping that her time would be several