[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 151 (Thursday, December 11, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H10303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            FAREWELL ADDRESS

  (Mr. TIERNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIERNEY. Madam Speaker, I rise on this particular occasion to 
thank my family, my friends, my colleagues, and the voters of the Sixth 
Congressional District of Massachusetts for giving me the unbelievably 
wonderful opportunity to represent that district here in this venerable 
body, the House of Representatives.
  I have been privileged to witness history and to participate in its 
making. My focus has always been on social justice and opportunity for 
all. I know that we have worked assiduously to try to make that happen 
every day that I have served here.
  I am also appreciative of the fantastic staff who have worked with me 
over the years, who have done so much to make sure that the work we did 
reflected those values, and worked every day to make sure the 
constituents of the Sixth District were well served.
  I also want to say that the delegation from Massachusetts deserves 
particular recognition on that. I am always appreciative of their 
support. And having served with the unbelievable legend, Senator Edward 
Kennedy, for years was a particular privilege.
  Madam Speaker, from making college more affordable and accessible to 
making sure that people had the opportunity in the workforce to get the 
skills they needed to perform and have a job that paid them well enough 
to support their family, to making sure we had oversight in foreign 
affairs and to making sure when people are contracting on contingent 
operations that they take care not to have waste, fraud, and abuse in 
the work that is done; from watching the taxpayers' dollars to making 
sure that people in this country got a fair shake and that somebody 
stood up not just for the banks and not just for the large corporations 
but for every single family in this country, making sure that their 
government worked for them, I have been proved, I have been honored, I 
have been privileged, and I thank, again, my constituents, my family, 
my friends, and all of my colleagues here in the House.

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