[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 4, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H2101-H2102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WELCOMING REVEREND HARVEY PETERS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Peters) is recognized for 1 minute.
  There was no objection.
  Mr. PETERS of California. Mr. Speaker, today I have the distinct 
honor of introducing the guest chaplain for the opening prayer, my 
father, Pastor Harvey Peters.
  Harvey Peters is a retired Lutheran minister whose service in a 
nearly 40-year career included stops in Michigan, New Jersey, New 
Mexico, Wisconsin, and all the way to California.
  While I was a kid, he was an active leader in the movement to 
desegregate housing in the Detroit suburbs, an effort that, while 
unpopular among some of our neighbors, instilled in me and my three 
sisters the values of courage, integrity, and equality that I have 
tried to carry into my own service.
  While my dad ran the congregation, my mom, RuthAnn, who is in 
attendance today, ran the family and worked part time as the church 
secretary.
  It is an honor to welcome Harvey Peters, a longtime advocate for 
civil rights and the poor, a community leader, and dedicated father and 
grandfather, to the United States House of Representatives today to 
give the opening prayer.

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