Congressional Baseball Game

Floor Speech

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Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to be up here today, and I want to, first of all, say on June 28 of this year, we raised $1.8 million for charity through our baseball game. We had 27,000 people pay to attend. We honored law enforcement, and Toyota was our sponsor.

Tonight, I stand here with Bill Johnson, one of our captains, Gary Palmer, and Chuck Fleischmann, who we surely call MVP.

This game is a tradition in Washington. Both sides play hard. The Democrats played hard this year. We played a little harder. The score was 16-6 in the Republicans' favor.

I just want to say that we truly are America's team, and we are proud of it. We have had a three-peat. Practice starts September 4 of this year as we move to a four-peat.

So that being said, we accept our trophy. We are honored to play our Democratic colleague friends. We will be looking forward to next year's game, and I just say, may God bless America.

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