[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 55 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IN HONOR OF PULITZER PRIZE WINNER DAVID HORSEY

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                           HON. JIM McDERMOTT

                             of washington

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 21, 1999

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and bring the 
attention of this body to the Nation's outstanding award for 
journalism, which was given recently to Mr. David Horsey, editorial-
page cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  In winning the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, Mr. Horsey 
has capped what is turning out to be a remarkable career in the press.
  I have known and appreciated Mr. Horsey's work for more than 20 years 
since his graduation from the University of Washington and career at 
several of the State's daily newspapers, before joining the P-I staff 
in 1979.
  As you well know, the job of an editorial cartoonist is not to make 
politicians feel good about themselves, and I have been a target of Mr. 
Horsey's journalism from time to time. But he also has the integrity to 
honor as well as puncture political stands, and cartoons of both types 
hang on the walls of my offices in Seattle and Washington, DC.
  The Pulitzer might be the latest and most-recognized, but it hardly 
is the first journalistic honor to come David's way.
  He was the National Press Foundation's 1998 Berryman Cartoonist of 
the Year and won first place in the Society of Professional 
Journalists' 1996 and 1997 competition for editorial cartooning in the 
Pacific Northwest. He'd already won 10 SPJ regional awards for 
cartooning and reporting. He won the 1994 award for Best of the West 
journalism competition and was the first cartoonist to win the 
Environmental Media Award.
  David Horsey does more than draw. He was editor of his college 
newspaper and has worked as a reporter as well as a cartoonist. In 
1986, as a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Mr. Horsey earned a master's 
degree in international relations from the University of Kent, at 
Canterbury, England. In 1993, he was one of only 25 Americans chosen to 
take part in the European Community Visitorship Program in Brussels.
  He's also a busy husband and parent and is at work on his first 
novel.
  Please join me today in honoring this outstanding member of 
Washington State's public community.

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