[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 167 (Friday, December 3, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2537]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REGARDING FORMER CONGRESSMAN GEORGE BROWN

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                            HON. MARK UDALL

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 22, 1999

  Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity 
to say a few words about our former colleague and ranking Science 
Committee member George Brown, Jr. His death earlier this year deprived 
this Congress and this country of a great champion of science and 
technology. While I worked with him for only a brief time, I felt as 
though I had known him for years because he had been a colleague and 
friend of my father and because his reputation was so well known.
  George Brown was a man of courage and vision and ideological 
consistency. In his 34 years of distinguished service in the House, he 
worked to advance energy and resource conservation, sustainable 
agriculture, advanced technology development, space exploration, 
international scientific cooperation, and the integration of technology 
in education. He summed it up best himself in a New York Times article 
earlier this year: ``I've thought that science could be the basis for a 
better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.''
  I join my colleagues in expressing my sorrow at George Brown's 
untimely passing. I was privileged to have known him.