[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CHAPLAIN JAMES R. FISHER

  (Mr. PHELPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PHELPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give thanks and recognize 
Chaplain James R. Fisher of the United States Coast Guard, who has just 
delivered the opening prayer this morning in the United States House of 
Representatives.
  I would first like to thank Chaplain Coughlin of the House for 
extending this prestigious invitation to Chaplain Fisher. Chaplain 
Fisher is a resident of Mt. Carmel, Illinois, which is in my district, 
and was the son of a United States Air Force career officer.
  Chaplain Fisher received his bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech and 
went on to attend North Park Seminary in Chicago and Yale Divinity 
School in Connecticut for his religious education.
  In 1983 he was ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church in 
Chicago, Illinois. He also served as a missionary in the Yupik Eskimo 
Village of Mountain Village, Alaska.
  Chaplain Fisher has a long and distinguished Naval career. He was 
commissioned in 1983 and has served on the U.S.S Suribachi and the 
U.S.S. Essex; been stationed at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton 
of California; Naval Air Station in Sigonella, Sicily, in Italy; and is 
currently the deputy chaplain of the Coast Guard in Washington, DC.
  Throughout his service in the Navy and Coast Guard, he has received 
many awards too numerous to mention in these remarks.
  Chaplain Fisher's proudest accomplishment, though, has been his 
marriage to Lori Christian since 1977 and the three sons they share, 
Jacob, Caleb and Josiah.
  Mr. Speaker, it has been my pleasure to introduce Chaplain Fisher, 
and I am very honored to do so.

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