[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 192 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2252]
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        MAYOR CHARLES CROWLEY RETIRES AFTER A JOB VERY WELL DONE

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 14, 2011

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, on December 27th, Mayor 
Charles Crowley of the city of Taunton will be chairing his last City 
Council meeting. It has been a great privilege and pleasure for me 
during the last four years and nine months to work with Mayor Crowley, 
as the Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the city of 
Taunton. Officially, he is an extremely thoughtful and creative chief 
executive, who combines a capacity to do serious policy analysis with 
important management skills. We have collaborated on a number of issues 
important to the city of Taunton, involving transportation, housing, 
and economic development, and I have found it easy to represent the 
city under Charlie Crowley's mayoralty, because he does his homework in 
a way that makes being the advocate for the city he presides over easy.
  For someone who is interested in history, talking with Charlie 
Crowley is always fascinating. Mayor Crowley is a first-rate historian, 
and I have rarely been with him dealing with a particular policy when I 
haven't learned something relevant and interesting about the history of 
the events or the place we are addressing.
  Charlie Crowley has been a friend as well as a colleague. He retires 
entitled to a sense of satisfaction about the great job he has done--
especially in an era when being Mayor of a city is one of the hardest 
jobs around.

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