[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25239]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         CONGRATULATIONS TO NEW YORK YANKEES AND NEW YORK METS

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, as a Bronx boy born and bred, and as someone 
who represents Bronx, New York, I want to congratulate the New York 
Yankees, the World Champions of 2000, for their wonderful season and, 
therefore, their victory in the World Series yesterday.
  When I was growing up, I lived within walking distance from Yankee 
Stadium. I remember the old teams with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, 
and these Yankees certainly winning the World Series three years in a 
row shows they are truly champions.
  I also want to congratulate the New York Mets for a wonderful, 
wonderful season and for being the winners of the National League. The 
subway series, and I went to as many World Series games as I could go 
to, really has made all of us as New Yorkers proud. In fact, my cap, 
which says ``Subway Series'' and has the number 4 train and the number 
7 train on it, is something, again, that makes New York very, very, 
very proud. Not since the 1950s, when I was just a little boy, have we 
had a subway series in New York, and I have never seen such electricity 
coming from the city.
  So we are all really winners; the New York Mets, the New York 
Yankees, two great phenomenal teams. I am proud to be a New Yorker, and 
I say again congratulations to the World Champion New York Yankees and 
to the National League Champions, the New York Mets.

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