[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 173 (Thursday, November 8, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2364]
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                     TRIBUTE TO MAYOR FRANK J. RYAN

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                           HON. MIKE FERGUSON

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 8, 2007

  Mr. FERGUSON. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Mayor Frank J. Ryan 
and his service to the residents of Bound Brook, NJ.
  Mayor Ryan is a graduate of Bound Brook High School and is married to 
Rachel ``Te.'' He is a father of two, and grandfather of four. Mayor 
Ryan served with honor in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. In 1959, 
Mayor Ryan was elected to the Board of Education, where he served for 7 
years before also serving as the president of the Board of Education 
between 1966 and 1968. In 1998, he was elected to the Borough Council 
and in 2000 was elected mayor of Bound Brook.
  Together, Mayor Ryan and I have worked on flood control for the Bound 
Brook portion of the Green Brook Flood Control Project. To date, we 
have secured more than 50 million Federal dollars and have completed 
more than half of the project. Mayor Ryan has been and remains a strong 
advocate of the project; earlier this year he travelled to Washington 
to personally promote continued Federal funding for the project with 
senior members of the House Appropriations Committee.
  Mayor Ryan is retiring this year from elective public service in 
Bound Brook. On behalf of residents of Bound Brook, I wish Mayor Ryan 
many happy years of rest and relaxation with his wife, Te, and I am 
pleased to honor his service to Bound Brook.

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