[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1620-E1621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO JAMES H. QUILLEN

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                        HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR.

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 17, 1996

  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, previously, my colleague and I engaged in a 
conversation regarding the accomplishments that Congressman Quillen has 
performed in the House of Representatives and the services he provided 
for hundreds of thousands of people in the First District of Tennessee 
and the entire State.
  I request that a copy of the attached statement from Steven 
Blackwell, which is representative of the views and thanks of thousands 
of people, be placed in the Record at this point. I would like to call 
it to the attention of my colleagues and other readers of the Record.

             Tribute to James H. Quillen, U.S. Congressman

       On a day when his colleagues in the House of 
     Representatives have risen to pay tribute to the 
     distinguished career and the dedicated public service of 
     James H. ``Jimmy'' Quillen of Tennessee, perhaps it is in 
     order for a constituent of Jimmy Quillen's to have the 
     opportunity to add an additional word of praise and of thanks 
     for the long service of this unique public servant. I 
     enormously appreciate this opportunity to do so.
       For thirty-four years, since the summer of 1962, when I was 
     fifteen years old, Jimmy Quillen has been the central 
     political figure of Tennessee's First Congressional District. 
     And for that same thirty-four years, since January 1963, a 
     period of time unsurpassed by any serving Republican on 
     Capitol Hill, Jimmy Quillen has been my Congressman.
       On legislative issues, particularly on matters of national 
     defense, on the role of the United States as an international 
     guarantor and exponent of free markets, free ideas, and free 
     people, and on issues of sound and prudent tax and fiscal 
     policies, Congressman Quillen has fully and faithfully 
     represented the views I have held.
       In the areas of constituent services, no American of either 
     party--or of any party or no party for that matter--could 
     have wanted a better exponent and advocate in dealing with 
     myriad bureaucrats at home and abroad. Those golden bulldogs 
     awarded for watching the Treasury might equally as well have 
     been given for tenacity in guarding constituent interests.
       In Republican political activities, Congressman Jimmy 
     Quillen has exemplied the pragmatic, conservative outlook 
     that for generations has characterized the independent-minded 
     mountain Republicans of East Tennessee.

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       His colleagues, the staffs of various committees, and the 
     professionals who represent every conceivable interest before 
     Congress know James H. Quillen as a long-term legislator and 
     effective negotiator.
       I, and countless others whom he had represented throughout 
     his tenure, know him as a man who rose from the most meager 
     of circumstances, as man who answered his country call in 
     time of war and sailed in harm's way to the opposite side of 
     troubled globe, and as a hard-working legislator. But I have 
     had the honor and privilege to know him as more as well. I am 
     proud to have known him as a friend; I have been honored to 
     have him as my Congressman; and, I will miss him.

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