[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 184 (Wednesday, November 30, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RECOGNIZING STATE SENATOR JIM NIELSEN ON HIS RETIREMENT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge my dear friend, 
State Senator Jim Nielsen of Northern California.
  Today is the last day of session in the California State legislature, 
and it will be the last day of Jim's legislative career, having served 
in two different segments over 26 years.
  Jim is a good friend, a great mentor, and a blessing to all of us in 
Northern California who he has served with for years; and also in the 
legislature during his time on the Board of Prison Terms working to 
keep our streets safer.
  Jim is a ranger in Tehama County by way of Sanger, California, near 
Fresno, who really understands the needs of the North State and its 
people. So it was indeed a pleasure for me to be able to overlap my 
time serving in the legislature there and here, out on the hustings in 
Northern California, as he put it.
  I appreciate his friendship. Indeed, Jim is a good man, a man of God 
who shows Christ's example in his actions and, indeed, that is very, 
very important in these perilous times that we face.
  Mr. Speaker, we thank Jim for stepping forward and serving the people 
of California with his common sense, with his wisdom that is indeed 
listened to and heard by all in that legislature and all of us out on 
the hustings.
  May God bless him.

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