[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 7, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H95]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    RECOGNIZING THE PASSING OF FORMER REPRESENTATIVE HERBERT HARRIS

  Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise with 
the members of the Virginia delegation to inform our colleagues of the 
passing of one of our colleagues, former Member of this Chamber, 
Herbert Harris. Herb died at the age of 88 on Christmas Eve at his home 
in the Mount Vernon district of Fairfax County.
  He served three terms in this body, from 1974 to 1980, representing 
what was then Virginia's Eighth Congressional District.
  Like his predecessor Stan Parris, my predecessor Tom Davis, and 
myself, Herb served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors prior to 
his election to Congress, and that experience served him well here in 
the House.
  He was a champion for the region, helping secure the necessary 
Federal funds to complete construction of the Metro system here in the 
Nation's Capital and to expand the Manassas National Battlefield Park 
for Civil War preservation. He returned to private law practice after 
leaving the House.
  Our former colleagues, Representatives Moran, Davis, and Wolf, 
collaborated in 2001 on a bipartisan basis to honor Herb by naming a 
new post office in the Mount Vernon district in his honor.
  Many of us attended funeral services for Herb earlier this week, and 
flags were flown at half-mast throughout Fairfax County and at the 
capitol in Richmond.
  Mr. Speaker, I now ask my colleagues to join all of us in extending 
our gratitude for his public service and our sympathy to his family and 
friends by standing with us at this moment to observe a moment of 
silence in Herb Harris' memory.

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