[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 98 (Monday, July 24, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H5649]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              IN HONOR OF THE LATE CONGRESSMAN TOM MANTON

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Madam Speaker and my colleagues, last Saturday, we lost 
Tom Manton. Many of you worked with him and knew him as well as we did 
in the city of New York.
  He was the son of Irish immigrants. His family came to this country. 
He worked as a salesman. He was a policeman for the New York City 
Police Department. He worked before that as a city councilman.
  Most of you knew him when he came to Congress and served so well, and 
he was followed to the Congress by Joe Crowley. He left the Congress to 
become the Democratic county leader for the County of Queens and made a 
name for himself as he sought out black and white, Irish, Asian, 
Hispanic candidates for one of the most diverse political subdivisions 
that we have in the city of New York. He is what we call, in New York 
City, a ``politician's politician,'' who was respected by Republicans 
as well as Democrats.
  We will miss him in the city of New York, but he left a better city 
than the one that he inherited.
  And I would like to yield to my friend and senior Republican in our 
New York delegation, Mr. Boehlert.
  Mr. BOEHLERT. Madam Speaker, I thank the dean of our delegation for 
yielding.
  I just want to say that all of us who were privileged to know and 
work with Tom Manton during his seven terms in this House of 
Representatives share a deep sense of personal loss. He was an 
absolutely outstanding individual. And I think Mayor Bloomberg of New 
York probably best described him in a very simple way. He said he was a 
``classy guy.''
  He was a guy who demonstrated in so many different ways his 
unflinching loyalty and his deep commitment to and faith in all of 
those things that he really believed in, his heritage, his religion, 
his party, his profession, his country, but, most of all, his family.
  I think we are the lesser for Tom Manton's passing, but we are the 
greater because he touched our lives.

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