[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 4, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                   IN MEMORY OF HARTWELL D. REED, JR.

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                          HON. WILLIAM D. FORD

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 4, 1994

  Mr. FORD of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, at the very time that we were 
debating the conference report on H.R. 6, amending and extending the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, a man who had an 
essential and important role in the original construction of that law 
and its improvement over the years was being interned at Arlington 
Cemetery. Hartwell D. ``Jack'' Reed retired in 1984. He had served the 
Committee on Education and Labor for 23 years.
  He made a vital and impressive contribution to all of the important 
social legislation of that era, including Economic Opportunity Act, the 
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and vocational education. He 
had a detailed knowledge of the substantive aspects of all of this 
legislation. He was an imaginative and extraordinarily good draftsman. 
His quiet good sense caused most members of the committee to seek his 
advice and counsel.
  Jack drafted many of the amendments to our committee rules that 
marked the liberalization and the democratization of the committee 
process in the 1960's and 1970's.
  As his ashes are interned in Arlington, there are many of us who miss 
him. He was a professional; he contributed much to the legislative 
process.

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