[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 68 (Thursday, May 26, 1994)]
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   THE DEAN OF KENTUCKY'S DELEGATION WELCOMES THE HONORABLE RON LEWIS

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, one of the designations I had never aspired 
to in my career was to become the dean of the Kentucky delegation 
because that meant that two revered Kentuckians had to pass before me, 
Mr. Perkins of Kentucky's Seventh District and, more recently, Mr. 
Natcher of the Second District. But it has been the will of the Lord 
that these two gentlemen pass and I become the dean of the delegation.
  So as the dean of the delegation, I want to welcome our new 
colleague, Ron Lewis, from the Second District of Kentucky. I will tell 
him that among the many wise things he said today, none was wiser than 
the size of the shoes he had to fill, because we know that Bill Natcher 
was and remains today a legend in this body.

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  I would tell my friend from Kentucky, Mr. Lewis that Bill Natcher 
always said this, and I think it became the hallmark and the motto of 
our Kentucky delegation, and I think it is the hallmark and motto that 
this House should always seek to achieve, and that is that when the 
interests of the people are at stake, partisanship ceases, party 
affiliation ceases, differences of philosophy cease to the extent they 
can, and we try to serve the people.
  I think it is on that basis that our delegation, which has never been 
either Democrat or Republican entirely, has always come together. We 
have always worked on behalf of Kentuckians, and, by extension, worked 
on behalf of Americans.
  So I welcome my friend from the second district, his daughter, and 
his family. We wish them much health and happiness in these months 
ahead. We also pledge to work together for all the people of Kentucky 
and all the people of the land.

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