[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 23923-23924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    THANKS TO THOSE WHO HELP KEEP THE CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES 
                              FUNCTIONING

  (Mr. PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PORTER. Mr. Speaker, I am retiring from the House after 21 years 
of service, and I want to take this opportunity to do something that I 
and all of us should do, and that is to thank the other people that 
make this House, this great institution, work.
  We thank our staffs and we thank the people who work here in the 
Chamber, but I want to talk about the people who run the elevators; 
about Bonnie and Andre, and Shelly and Wendy, and John and Sheila and 
Sylvia, and so many more that put up with us day after day. The people 
who run the restaurant, the House restaurant, Sally and John and Miss 
Vickie, and many more. The Capitol police, who protect us with their 
lives. The people who run the trains, the people who clean the offices 
in the Capitol and keep it beautiful for ourselves and for all of the

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visitors. The people who repair and maintain the Capitol complex, the 
people from the office of the Architect of the Capitol. The people who 
run the congressional Federal Credit Union, our cloakroom and the floor 
people, Tim and Joelle, and Jim and Jay, and others. Helen and Pat in 
our cloakroom. Helen has been an institution, a fixture in the House. 
Since 1939 she has been serving Republican Members. People who run the 
take-outs and the restaurants and the office buildings in the Capitol 
complex, the barber Joe Q. The people who run the service offices, the 
Member services, Caroline and Juanita. The doorkeepers, the 
parliamentarians, the TV and radio and press people, our chaplain, the 
Congressional Research Service people, the legislative counsel, the 
people who run the House garages and there are so many others who I 
have not named.
  There are so many who work so hard for this institution and for its 
Members. All of us can never thank them enough for their wonderful 
service to us and to this institution and to our country.

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