[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 155 (Wednesday, December 1, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H7763]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        IN MEMORY OF BOB ABBOTT

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, I come to memorialize Bob Abbott, a young 
man who saw the future in terms of technology and who worked on 
inventing the digital ways of communicating. He was a researcher who 
looked around the world and saw what was needed in terms of computers. 
And he helped the team in Silicon Valley solve some of those problems. 
He died about a month ago.
  He would be appalled to know that all of his hard work to bring 
communications together would leave out those who are unemployed. As 
you know, 39 percent say that not eliminating the tax cuts for those 
earning more than $250,000 a year would be a travesty. Bob worked so 
hard to address these issues through his computer communications. We 
have to be sure that those people who have worked so diligently in 
manufacturing and in other areas of technology are taken care of when 
they lose their jobs.
  In memory of a young man who worked so hard to bring communication 
skills to all Americans, I say to him we will make a move to see that 
the unemployed have work in your memory.

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