[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H10604-H10605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WISHING MY COLLEAGUES WELL

  (Mr. JACOBS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, for me it is swansong time. I have two 
suggestions as I take my leave. The first is to my colleagues. Get to 
know each other and you will like each other. There is a lot to like in 
every Member of this body. In the words of Edward Wallis Hoch, ``There 
is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us 
that it hardly becomes any of us to say very much about the rest of 
us.''

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  Say a prayer and do what you can for those unfortunate children of 
God who are addicted to tobacco and other deadly drugs. They will die 
before their time or wish they could.
  As I prepare to yield back the sacred office in which I have been 
privileged to serve for nearly a third of a century, I wish you all 
Godspeed. You will remain in my heart and in my prayers forever.

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