[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 47 (Monday, April 4, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H2277]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             IN MEMORY OF FORMER REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ADLER

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH. John Adler was in the class just after me, and I got to 
know him well because the freshman and sophomore classes went through 
learning how to serve in this Congress together. I also got to know him 
because we happened to have our lockers in the same section of the gym. 
And I am stunned, as we all are.
  But what was so amazing to me, in my getting to know John Adler, was 
I learned about his Harvard education, the college and the law school. 
I had some assumptions about him that he had a much more prosperous 
early life than he did. He had to earn everything that he got. I also 
learned about the challenges that he faced. And what was clear to me, 
as it was to all of us who got to know him, is that he was a person who 
made a decision that whatever the challenge, he was going to face it 
with good humor, with optimism, with a sense of doing the work because 
it was worth doing in and of itself.
  I also remember many times asking him about his weekend; and what he 
always responded with was something about his family. It wasn't about 
the speech he gave; it wasn't about the press release or a story in the 
paper on TV. It was always, every single time, about his family. John 
Adler was a good friend. He will be missed. A wonderful, wonderful 
servant in Congress.

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