[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COLLEAGUE, SONNY BONO

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, last Saturday afternoon I had the 
opportunity to address the California Contract Cities Association 
convention in Palm Springs, and I would like to congratulate the 
outgoing president, Bea Lapisto-Kirtley, and the new president, Tom 
Breazeal.
  But as I walked out of that meeting, I turned down the street, and I 
saw a crowd. And like any of us, we are rather curious when we see a 
crowd, and who did I see in the midst of that crowd but our colleague 
the gentleman from California, Sonny Bono, who was joined by his 
beautiful wife, Mary, their two little children and his 82-year-old 
mother, Jean Bono.
  What was happening was the gentleman from California, Sonny Bono, was 
having his star status set in stone as he was having a star placed on 
Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs, California, and I would simply like 
to rise and inform my colleagues that we all knew that the gentleman 
from California, Mr. Bono, was a star, but now it is set in stone, and 
I want to congratulate him, and I know that every one of my colleagues 
will join in doing so.

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