Washington, July 3 -- Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth issued the following press release:
"Yesterday I had one of the most profound experiences in 18 months as your Representative in Congress: traveling to Philadelphia with a bipartisan group of colleagues to be in the "room where it happened" 250 years to the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A day of reflection later, and I still struggle to put into words what it means to have stood in the very room in Independence Hall where the Continental Congress gathered and officially declared independence from Great Britain. But here is my most earnest attempt:
While we celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, the document pledging "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" o...