[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 115 (Thursday, September 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H6848-H6849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THANKING COLLEAGUES AND STAFF

  (Mr. CALLAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank 
my colleagues on the subcommittee that helped so tremendously in the 
drafting of this bill and especially to the gentlewoman from California 
[Ms. Pelosi], the ranking member of the subcommittee and to the staff 
people: Mark Murray, as well as Carolyn Bartholomew; to the committee 
staff on our side, Charlie Flickner, John Shank, Bill

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Inglee, and Lori Maes, for their tremendous assistance in the handling 
of this very controversial piece of legislation.
  As Members can see, if we work in a bipartisan spirit toward the 
accomplishment of a goal, we can achieve great numbers success. And 
certainly the numbers on final passage of this bill today reflect that.
  We hope that we will be able to resolve with the Senate some of the 
differences that we have and are optimistic that we will do so. But 
without the tremendous success of all of the Members, including my 
staff person, Nancy Tippins, who worked so tremendously with me on 
this, we would not be where we are today.
  We are going to send to the President and to the administrative 
branch a good bill. I think under the leadership of the State 
Department of Madeleine Albright that the administration certainly will 
have an adequate amount of money to spend in the fashion that they see 
fit, especially if the Senate sees fit to adopt the procedures that we 
have sent to them today.

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