[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 137 (Wednesday, September 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8583-H8584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE CARLOS J. MOORHEAD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Dreier] is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, there are many very pressing and important 
issues which we have been discussing. The previous speakers have been 
talking about some very pressing budget matters. But I have taken this 
time out this evening to talk about a personal item and that is the 
fact that 

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just last week one of our colleagues, Congressman Moorehead, announced 
his retirement, and I wanted to take a moment. Usually people wait 
until the very end of the session to talk about Members who have chosen 
to retire, but I wanted to take just a moment to talk about a person 
who I believe is a stellar citizen legislator and one who will be 
sorely missed when he, after 12 terms of service here in the House of 
Representatives, will retire.
  Carlos Moorhead is a citizen legislator. He had a small law practice 
in his hometown of Glendale, CA where he had grown up. He went to 
Hoover High School and was one who regularly participated in many civic 
items, and he is one who chose public service. Now, we know that in 
this day and age public service itself is much maligned. We regularly 
see people who have chosen to spend some years of their life in public 
service criticized. But the fact of the matter is Carlos Moorhead is a 
very unusual person. We all know from serving here in the House that he 
is not a show horse. He in fact is a workhorse.
  He is the chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, not one 
of the most exciting issues discussed here on the House floor, but I am 
one who believes that it is very important. It is very important, as we 
look at international trade agreements and other items, that we 
maintain the intellectual property rights which are so key to the very 
unique talents which citizens of the United States of America have.
  Carlos served 6 years as a member of the California State Legislature 
before choosing to run for Congress in 1972. He served on that 
Judiciary Committee that held the impeachment hearings in the early 
1970's, and his loyalty was very great. It has been written up in the 
media over the past week or so that he stood strongly behind Richard 
Nixon, and his
 quote in the papers consisted of the following: He believed it very 
important to maintain the Presidency at that time.

  He also has been heavily involved in the issue of telecommunications, 
having served as ranking minority member when we were in the minority 
here on the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, and it was a great 
achievement to see the legislation which passed this House just before 
the August recess come about, and Mr. Moorhead had spent a long period 
of time working on that legislation.
  I would simply like to say that it is going to be a great personal 
loss for me when, as he regularly reminds me, in a year and a half he 
chooses to retire. He will still be serving here for the next 17 some 
odd months and we know we are going to be spending a great deal of time 
here, but when he does choose to retire at the end of next year, it 
will be a personal loss.
  I have had the privilege of trying to represent the district which 
joins his in Los Angeles County, and we all know that he has been a 
great friend, a very hard worker, and I happen to believe one of the 
most underestimated Members of this institution. When he does retire, 
he will be sorely missed by many of us.


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