[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 44 (Thursday, March 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H3378-H3379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO LEE ANNENBERG

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise today 
to share with my colleagues the news of the passing earlier this 
morning of a very

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dear family friend and one of our Nation's greatest citizens, Mrs. 
Walter Annenberg.
  Lee Annenberg was an extraordinary person who lived every day with 
elegance, generosity, and a dedication to improving the quality of life 
of her fellow man. Members of this institution will recall countless 
instances of a strong commitment to the United States House of 
Representatives and both Houses of Congress.
  She in fact made it possible for us to, for the first time since the 
founding of our country, convene on the anniversary of September 11, 
when we all went to Federal Hall in New York. She underwrote the 
bipartisan civility retreat that we held. Several years ago, the 
California congressional delegation came together at her beautiful 
home, Sunnylands, in Rancho Mirage, California, to hold the first ever 
bipartisan California congressional delegation retreat.
  Mr. Speaker, no two people have been more personally committed to 
public service, education, and philanthropy than Lee and Walter 
Annenberg.

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