[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 INFORMING MEMBERSHIP OF THE PASSING OF THE HONORABLE GEORGE E. BROWN, 
                        JR., MEMBER OF CONGRESS

  (Mr. GEPHARDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, it is my sad duty to inform the Members 
that we have lost this morning our dear friend from California, George 
Brown, who died in Washington, D.C.
  Our prayers and our thoughts are with his family and his friends and 
neighbors and constituents. He has been a constant friend to all of us 
on both sides of the aisle. He has been a dedicated public servant and 
he gave a great, great deal of his life to this body and to his 
constituents.
  I would like to ask us now to rise and have a moment of silence in 
his memory.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GEPHARDT. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding to me, and I rise as chair of the California Democratic 
delegation, and I am sure my colleague, the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Lewis) will also ask to be recognized as the Chair of the 
Republican delegation.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GEPHARDT. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman 
yielding to me, and I appreciate the words of our colleague, the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), on behalf of George Brown.
  I wish to announce to the Members that in the days ahead we will be 
reserving an appropriate time for a memorial discussion on the floor 
recognizing the many, many years of service of our colleague George 
Brown, and in


turn we will be continuing to communicate closely with his family in 
order to get information to the Members regarding memorial services 
that are appropriate in California. Those notifications will come to 
Members very soon.
  Further than that, Mr. Speaker, I would urge that we adjourn today in 
George Brown's memory by way of the full membership of the House.

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