[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 32 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E364-E365]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A TRIBUTE TO GERRY AND DORIS POPE

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                            HON. JERRY LEWIS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 21, 2000

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in tribute to 
Gerry Pope, retiring Executive Director of the California Marine 
Affairs and Navigation Conference (C-MANC) and his wife Doris.
  To all of us in the California Congressional Delegation, the 38 
federally sponsored ports and harbors in California are emblematic of 
why the State is today the seventh largest economy in the world.
  For almost a decade now, Gerry and Doris have worked as a team as the 
full time administrators of this statewide association. They have aptly 
managed C-MANC's affairs so that today, California's maritime and 
marine infrastructure is a symbol of how to enable both domestic 
economic expansion and international trade development through strong 
ports and harbors.
  Mr. Speaker, I am sure all of the members of our State's delegation 
join me in paying tribute to the work Gerry and Doris Pope have done to 
ensure the California maintains its prominent position in the Pacific 
Rim. All of our congressional districts on the coast and inland 
throughout the State benefit from California's ports. We thank the 
dedication of these

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two people over the years to make it all happen.
  I ask my colleagues to join in thanking Gerry and Doris for their 
lengthy service and send them best wishes on the occasion of their 
retirement from service to their State and country.

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