[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 125 (Monday, September 30, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1680]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRIBUTE TO JIM LLOYD

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                           HON. DAVID DREIER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 26, 2002

  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to extend 
warmest 80th birthday wishes to our former colleague and good friend 
from West Covina, California, Jim Lloyd.
  Jim was first elected to Congress in 1974 and served until 1981, 
representing the people of the San Gabriel Valley with distinction. And 
while many of us remember his tenure on the Armed Services Committee 
and Science and Technology Committee, where he served as Chairman of 
the Investigation and Oversight Subcommittee, Jim Lloyd came to the 
House with an already distinguished record of public service.
  From 1942 to 1963, Jim served as an officer in the United States 
Navy, flying combat missions during World War II and, at the onset of 
the Cold War, completed his last duty assignment at Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. The flying and 
the excitement had only just begun.
  Stateside, Jim owned and operated a small public relations and 
advertising firm with his beautiful wife, Jackie, in West Covina. He 
also caught the political bug, ably serving on the West Covina City 
Council from 1968 to 1974, and as Mayor from 1973 to 1974. In 1974, Jim 
was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he 
served for three terms. And he kept on flying, receiving his helicopter 
rating and fixed wing license.
  Since leaving the House, Jim has served as a consultant for a number 
of local, national, and international clients. But, most of all, he has 
maintained his love for flying, logging in over 14,000 hours in 
approximately 150 different types of aircraft ranging from the single 
engine Cessna Citation, to the F-18 and F-16 fighter aircraft, to the 
747 jumbo jet, and also flying with the British, French, and Israeli 
Air Forces. Today, Jim owns a Piper Commanche and is still regularly in 
the air.
  I am proud to call Jim Lloyd a friend, and invite my colleagues to 
join me, his wife Jackie, son Brian Patrick, and grandsons Cameron 
Scott and Seth James, in saluting him on the happy occasion of his 80th 
birthday and wishing him many more years in the wild blue yonder.

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