[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 25, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING THE LIFE OF CHRISTINE SARBANES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Bartlett) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BARTLETT. Mr. Speaker, I am going to speak from this side of the 
aisle because it is where Paul Sarbanes would have stood.
  When I came here almost 17 years ago, I would see Senator Sarbanes at 
social functions with this very attractive brunette on his arm, and I 
said to myself: Paul married well, didn't he? Then Christine came to my 
office as an advocate for schools and teachers, and I was wowed. When 
she left, I said to myself: Paul not only married well, he married up. 
Then, one day, my wife, when I came home, told me that at a spouse's 
event that day she had talked to Christine and that Christine told her 
that they had decided to retire because, as she told my wife--and Mr. 
Speaker, I am going to have a little trouble with this--they wanted to 
retire while they could still both climb steps.
  I regret very much that Christine had far too few years to climb 
those steps with Paul.

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