[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 147 (Tuesday, November 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: November 29, 1994]
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                       A DAY STEEPED IN NOSTALGIA

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, for scores of us, this will be the very 
last vote that we will cast in our careers in the House of 
Representatives. This kind of a day is one that is steeped in nostalgia 
as we look backward to the people with whom we have served, the 
Speakers under whom we have served, but also as we look forward to new 
lives in our districts or here in the Washington area.
  I think it is therefore propitious that as we reach this juncture, 
that the vote we will cast today is one which is not a local vote in 
our districts nor even a vote that deals with our States or even a vote 
which deals with our States or even a vote which deals with our Nation, 
but rather a vote which deals with the total world, with the entire 
globe.
  So I think it is propitious and fitting that we leave, those of us 
leaving at this time, leave on the note of a vote that deals with the 
world community. I happen to feel that the General Agreement on Tariff 
and Trade implementing legislation is good and valid and ought to be 
passed, and I hope this Chamber will do so later today. But I also 
leave on the note that I have loved the service, loved working with all 
the people of the House. I wish this assembly and its people, men and 
women, very much good fortune and success in the years ahead, and look 
forward to working with you from a different perspective, but to again 
wish each of you God's choicest blessings.

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