[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28595]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



       CONGRATULATIONS TO MORNING EDITION ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, it is not often that I regret having not 
been included in a party here in town, but after having finished the 
financial modernization bill late last night and then about 1 o'clock 
this morning joining with my colleagues as we filed the rule which the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Diaz-Balart) is going to be managing in 
just a few minutes, I woke up this morning and listened to National 
Public Radio, and there was a great party that was going on celebrating 
the 20th anniversary of a program called Morning Edition, which has 
provided us with a great deal of grist for debate and argument here on 
the House floor for the last couple of decades.
  We are marking all kinds of anniversaries. My friend, the gentleman 
from New York (Mr. McNulty) just talked about the fact that yesterday 
was the 224th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps. We are 
about to mark the 10th anniversary of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. 
One of the stories on Morning Edition this morning consisted of the 
death of Nicolae Ceausescu a decade ago, so we are marking a lot of 
anniversaries.
  I would just like to throw in the fact that as a Republican who 
listens to National Public Radio, I congratulate Morning Edition on 
their 20th.

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