[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 156 (Wednesday, December 7, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H11186-H11187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 WELCOMING THE HONORABLE JOHN CAMPBELL TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, when our former colleague, Mr. Cox, was 
nominated by the President to become the chairman of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, it obviously created an opening in one of the most 
beautiful congressional districts in the entire country in Southern 
California; and we are very pleased that our new colleague who has just 
been sworn in, John Campbell, was elected.
  John Campbell has an extraordinary history in California. As I look 
around the Chamber, Mr. Speaker, at our colleagues, very few of them 
actually have roots in California. The fact of the matter is John 
Campbell has roots that extend deeper than, frankly, anyone that I 
know. Our State is a little more than 150 years old; and yet in 1860, 
the year that Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United 
States, John Campbell's great grandfather was elected to the California 
State legislature. So 145 years later, we have John Campbell now coming 
to serve in the United States House of Representatives, to me the 
greatest deliberative body known to man.

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  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of all of our colleagues from California, from 
both sides of the aisle, it is a great privilege and honor for me to 
congratulate and to welcome our new colleague, Mr. John Campbell.

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