[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 106 (Thursday, July 26, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H4639]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            WELCOMING THE REVEREND MONSIGNOR JAMES G. KELLY

  Mr. LaFALCE. Mr. Speaker, I want to both welcome and thank Monsignor 
Jim Kelly from St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church on Hertel Avenue in 
Buffalo, New York, for coming here this morning and offering the 
opening prayer.
  When I was a very young man coming out of law school, I was hired by 
one of the most prominent firms in Buffalo, Jackle, Fleischman, Kelly 
Swart, and Ausberger. It was Monsignor Kelly's dad, Harry Kelly, one of 
the best trial lawyers western New York has ever seen, who gave me my 
initial start. His sister Therese and her husband Tom bought a home 
just two doors away from the home that I lived in on Starin Avenue in 
the Town of Tonawanda.
  The name Kelly is very, very Irish, but he ministers with great care 
and love and compassion to the parishioners of St. Margaret's, which is 
over 70 percent Italian American. He, in addition to that, tries, 
probably harder than anyone else, to promote peace and justice within 
the Diocese of Buffalo, because he is the Chairman of the Peace and 
Justice Commission for the Diocese of Buffalo.
  Monsignor Kelly, we welcome you here today and we also say to you, 
one day late, Happy Birthday.

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