[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E129]
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                   IN HONOR OF REP. RONALD V. DELLUMS

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                      HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR.

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 11, 1998

  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Rep. Ronald V. Dellums leaves the House 
of Representatives after twenty-six years of dedicated service to the 
people of California's ninth district and to all Americans. His 
unyielding determination and leadership curbed military spending and 
aided the reserve of the nuclear arms race. His resolution for change 
led him to develop alternative agendas and budgets to take the burden 
of the Cold War off the next generation. Investment in education, 
economic development and the reinstatement of a progressive tax base 
were his weapons. Dellums' desire for justice for all, shadowed his 
support of the 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Act, the reauthorization 
of the 1967 Voting Rights Act and for reparations for Japanese-
Americans interned in concentration camps during World War II. His 
intensity for justice did not stop on the shores of America. In 1971, 
Rep. Dellums was the first to introduce legislation for economic 
sanctions against the racist apartheid regime of South Africa. Fifteen 
years later his bill passed the House, leading to the imposition of 
sanctions. South Africa is now free.
  What do you say to a man who has devoted his career to justice and 
peace? You say . . . Thank you, Mr. Dellums. Thank you for standing 
tall against the forces that be. Thank you for being independent and 
outspoken. Thank you for supporting what was always the greater good.
  The retirement of Rep. Ronald V. Dellums will be a great loss in the 
halls of Congress, but his legacy of peace will live on.

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