[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 9, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H6319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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              HONORING THE LIFE OF AMBASSADOR JACK HENNING

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, we lost a lion of the labor movement and a 
true son of San Francisco with the passing of Ambassador Jack Henning. 
Jack spent the vast majority of his 93 years fighting for men and women 
in the fields, factories, and loading docks of America. The only thing 
he loved more than telling labor stories to anyone who would hear them 
was telling them to those who didn't.
  For 26 years, Jack was the driving force behind the California Labor 
Federation, but he served our country in many ways. He was the director 
of the California Department of Industrial Relations under Governor Pat 
Brown, Under Secretary of Labor for President Kennedy, and U.S. 
Ambassador to New Zealand for President Lyndon Johnson.
  Mr. Speaker, my thoughts are with Jack's family and the millions of 
Americans--most of whom never knew him--who earn a liveable wage, work 
under safer conditions, and are able to take their child to a doctor 
because of the tireless passion of Ambassador Jack Henning.

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