[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H7635-H7636]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               HOWARD T. MARKEY NATIONAL COURTS BUILDING

  Mr. KIM. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill 
(H.R. 824) to redesignate the Federal building located at 717 Madison 
Place, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the ``Howard T. Markey 
National Courts Building''.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                                H.R. 824

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION.

       The Federal building located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in 
     the District of Columbia and known as the National Courts 
     Building shall be known and designated as the ``Howard T. 
     Markey National Courts Building''.

     SEC. 2. REFERENCES.

       Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, 
     or other record of the United States to the Federal building 
     referred to in section 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to 
     the ``Howard T. Markey National Courts Building''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Kim] and the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California [Mr. Kim].
  Mr. KIM. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Illinois [Mr. Hyde].
  (Mr. HYDE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HYDE. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this 
time. I cannot possibly say what I want to say in 2 minutes. Howard 
Markey was my lifetime friend. This honor is certainly deserved.
  Madam Speaker, H.R. 824 would redesignate the Federal building 
located at 717 Madison Place, NW., in the District of Columbia, as the 
``Howard T. Markey National Courts Building.'' Judge Markey clearly 
deserves this recognition as a result of and in tribute to his service 
to others and to this country.
  Howard Markey has been a leader in the Federal judiciary from the 
time of his initial appointment in 1972. Judge Markey presided on the 
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal circuit, which sits in 
the building to be redesignated, from the court's creation in 1982 
until he stepped down as Chief Judge. He also served as judge and Chief 
Judge of the former Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. He was a 
brilliant practicing patent lawyer prior to ascending to the bench, and 
served as Dean of the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago after 
stepping down from the bench. Howard was also one of this country's 
first test pilots of jets and rose to the rank of major general.
  Wholly apart from his monumental contributions to American 
jurisprudence through his arguments at the bar and his opinions from 
the bench, Howard had a profound and ameliorative impact upon our legal 
system when he led the movement that resulted in the creation of the 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal circuit. Howard had the insight 
to recognize, and the intellectual power to make the case, that the 
Nation would be better served if appeals in the domains of intellectual 
property law, Federal claims, and Federal civil service matters were 
taken to a single national tribunal rather than disparate geographic 
courts. He demonstrated this could be done without undermining the 
Federal nature of our legal system or doing injury to the logic that 
generally sustains the geographic division of the circuits. AS the U.S. 
Court of Appeals for the Federal circuit's first and most influential 
Chief Judge, Howard led it to its stature as the world's most respected 
and followed court on matters of intellectual property, international 
trade, governmental obligations to citizens, and public sector 
personnel law.
  There is some urgency to this legislation as Howard, who was widowed 
a few years ago, is in a nursing home and in frail health. There is no 
more fitting name for the building that houses the judicial structure 
that he fathered than that of Howard Markey, and no better way to 
remember Howard Markey than to attach his name to the hall of justice 
in which he worked so long and so well for the American people. I am 
pleased that the Congress will enact this bill and redesignate this 
building for this great American.
  Madam Speaker, I include the following material for the Record:

                            Howard T. Markey

       Howard T. Markey assumed duties as Dean of the John 
     Marshall Law School in July, 1991. He retired October 31, 
     1994 and now serves as Dean Emeritus.
       A distinguished jurist, serving as Chief Judge of the 
     United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 
     1982 to 1990 and was an active judge on this court after his 
     resignation as chief judge. Prior to serving on the Federal 
     Circuit Court of Appeals, he served since 1972 as chief judge 
     for the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
       Dean Markey is the first active judge to have sat with 
     every Federal Court of Appeals. He has sat in over 1,400 
     cases and written more than 250 opinions for the Regional 
     Circuit Courts in every field of law, in addition to 5,000 
     cases and 800 opinions for the Court of Customs and Patent 
     Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
       Dean Markey received his juris doctor degree in 1949 from 
     Loyola University in Chicago, where he graduated cum laude 
     and served as editor-in-chief of the Loyola University Law 
     Review. He earned a master's degree from The John Marshall 
     Law School in 1950.
       Dean Markey has published extensively in legal periodicals, 
     and has taught at George Washington University, Loyola 
     University, the Federal Judicial Center, and the John 
     Marshall Law School.
       He is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary 
     degrees--the most recent being the A. Sherman Christensen 
     Award from the American Inns of Court. He has been chairman 
     of the Ethics Advisory Committee on Codes of Conduct, and a 
     senior member of the Judicial Conference of the United 
     States. He currently is chairman of the board of the American 
     Inns of Court Foundation, and a member of the board of 
     trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
       Prior to serving in the federal judiciary, Dean Markey was 
     a partner for many years in the Chicago law firm of Parker, 
     Markey & Plyer.
       A retired major general in the United States Air Force, 
     Dean Markey is a highly decorated veteran of both World War 
     II and the Korean War, and was one of the first jet test 
     pilots in the United States.
       He is a brilliant orator, administrator, jurist and 
     lawyer--and he richly deserves this honor.

  Mr. KIM. Madam Speaker, H.R. 824 redesignates the Federal building 
located at 717 Madison Place in the District of Columbia as the Howard 
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Markey National Courts Building. Judge Howard Markey presided on the 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1982 until he 
stepped down as chief judge in 1990. He also served as judge and chief 
judge of the former Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
  Judge Markey has been a leader in the Federal judiciary from the time 
of his initial appointment in 1972. He had a profound impact upon our 
legal system by leading the movement in the creation of the Federal 
circuit. As the Federal circuit's first chief judge, Judge Markey 
raised the court's stature to the world's most respected court on 
matters of intellectual property, international trade, governmental 
obligations to citizens, and public sector personnel law. This is a 
fitting tribute to this esteemed jurist. I support the bill, and I urge 
my colleagues to join in this support.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I do not know Judge Markey, I know of his 
record and the great distinguished service that has been brought 
forward, but I know the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde]. I know that 
the gentleman from Illinois made this recommendation, the gentleman 
from Illinois believes that he is a great man, and I am sure he is and 
most deserving. I just want to join forces today here from our side of 
the aisle to support the recommendation of the gentleman from Illinois 
[Mr. Hyde], the distinguished chairman. I want to thank the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Kim], the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. 
Shuster] and the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Oberstar] for having 
allowed that opportunity.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Campbell].
  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to stand as a matter of 
family pride in behalf of this resolution for my friend Judge Howard 
Markey. I say family for two reasons. First of all, my father was chief 
judge of the Federal court in Chicago and on many occasions served with 
Judge Markey by designation on the seventh circuit. It was my father, 
Judge William Campbell who first introduced me to Judge Markey. My 
father passed away just a few weeks before I was elected to Congress, 
but I think he is smiling in heaven to know that his son today is 
paying tribute to his friend, our family friend, Howard Markey.
  It is a family honor as well because of the man I consider as close 
as a brother, Joseph Morris of Chicago, who with his wife Kathleen, are 
with us in the gallery today for the purpose of watching this honor 
given to Howard Markey. It is Mr. Morris who reminded me that though 
Judge Markey is now confined most of the time to a nursing home in 
Chicago, he still comes downtown to teach class at John Marshall Law 
School once a week so that his students will have the benefit of his 
encyclopedic, insightful knowledge of intellectual property law.
  It is a matter of professional pride as well as family pride that I 
rise to add my words to those of my colleagues in this worthy 
designation, because Howard Markey is an academic without equal in the 
field of intellectual property. As a professor of law at Stanford 
University, I recognize an academic colleague in Howard Markey whose 
knowledge and influence in making intellectual property law consistent 
with free-market economics is second to none.
  Last, as a native son of Chicago, I rise with tremendous pride to see 
how well another son of Chicago has done, bringing the wisdom of the 
prairie to the Capital of the United States, something that some of us 
can only aspire to do--and that via detour through California.
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, I join Mr. Kim in supporting H.R. 824, a 
bill to designate the National Courts Building here in Washington in 
honor of Judge Howard Markey.
  Judge Markey was the first active judge to have sat with every 
Federal Court of Appeals. He participated in over 1,400 cases and wrote 
more than 250 opinions for the regional courts and over 800 opinions 
for the Court of Customs. He is a World War II and Korean war veteran 
and his biography is filled with numerous honors and distinctions. It 
is most fitting to honor Judge Markey in this manner.
  Mr. KIM. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Gutknecht). The question is on the 
motion offered by the gentleman from California [Mr. Kim] that the 
House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 824.
  The question was taken.
  Mr. CONDIT. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 5, rule I, and the 
Chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be 
postponed.
  The point of no quorum is considered withdrawn.

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