[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2147]
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                        FRANK CORRECTS HIS ERROR

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 7, 2006

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, in the Congressional Record 
for Tuesday, December 5, 2006 I inserted remarks noting the justifiable 
honor that Georgetown Law School paid to our former colleague, Father 
Robert Drinan, by naming a Chair in Human Rights in his honor. 
Unfortunately, I marred that insertion by incorrectly naming the first 
holder of the Chair. In that insertion, I said that Professor T. 
Alexander Aleinikoff was holding the Chair. In fact, he is the Dean of 
Georgetown University Law Center and he spoke at the ceremony in 
recognition of the first Chair holder. That recipient of the honor of 
being the first holder of the Robert F. Drinan Chair is Judge Thomas 
Buergenthal.
  Mr. Speaker, because I think it is a very important step that one of 
our nation's leading law schools has so honored a man who pioneered in 
the important field of human rights, and further that the proceedings 
in which that occurred be fully and accurately portrayed here in this 
Record, I have submitted for printing elsewhere in the Record a copy 
that corrects my mistake. I ask separately that these remarks be 
included so that people who note that there were two versions of this 
important ceremony printed in the Record will understand why.
  I apologize to Judge Buergenthal for not having recognized initially 
his being designated as the holder of this Chair and I repeat my 
congratulations to Georgetown University Law Center for honoring a 
great man, former Congressman Father Robert F. Drinan, and a great 
cause to which he has donated and continues to donate so much of his 
talent and time.




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