[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 7 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H365-H366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER

  The SPEAKER. The Chair wishes to simply observe for the Record, if I 
might, that we are welcoming a new Member whom we are delighted to have 
with us and who we think has a great future. We are welcoming him on a 
day when weare losing a great Member who has had a great career and to 
whom we are all indebted for being a model of representing democracy in 
a free society.
  So while we are saying good-bye to the gentleman from California (Mr.

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Dellums) we are saying hello to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks) 
and that is the biological process by which a free people renews 
itself.
  We will miss you, Mr. Dellums; and we are grateful to have you here, 
Mr. Meeks.

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