[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25243]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE EDWARD A. PEASE AND THE HONORABLE DAVID M. 
                                McINTOSH

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Madam Speaker, we are going to be losing two 
of our Congressmen from Indiana, and they are both very fine 
Congressmen. One of them is Ed Pease, whom all of us have seen in the 
Chair many, many times over the past couple of years. He has done a 
great job as the Speaker pro tempore on many occasions.
  Ed was first elected to the Congress just 4 years ago, and we hate to 
see him leave so quickly after being here such a short time. I had the 
pleasure of serving with him in the Indiana State Senate back in the 
early eighties, and everybody there thought he was an extraordinary 
Senator, as well as my colleagues here in the House feel today that he 
is an extraordinary Congressman.
  Ed was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was an outstanding student. 
He graduated from Indiana University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts 
degree with distinction. He graduated from Indiana Law School, magna 
cum laude in 1977. Of course, he went on to be involved in civic 
activities as well as politics.
  He served, as I said, in the Indiana State Senate from 1980 through 
1992, and he was chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and 
chairman of the Indiana Commission on Trial Courts and chairman of the 
Indiana Code Revision Commission.
  In the private sector, he served as a City Attorney for the city of 
Brazil, and as General Counsel for the Indiana State University. He has 
also been in a partner in the law firm of Thomas, Thomas & Pease. In 
1993, Ed became the Vice President for University Advancement at 
Indiana State University, and he was very highly regarded. He is one of 
those people over there they would like to have considered down the 
road, and maybe immediately, as president of Indiana State University.
  Ed Pease is one of the finest men I have known. He has been a great 
Congressman, a great leader in this body. We will miss you a lot, Ed. I 
hope you have a great deal of success in the future, and you come back 
and visit your colleagues in the Congress often.
  I would also like to say our candidate for Governor in Indiana right 
now is Congressman McIntosh. David McIntosh has been here since 1994. 
He has been an outstanding Congressman. He served as one of my 
subcommittee chairmen on the Committee on Government Reform. He has 
done an exemplary job as well there. He is another person we are going 
to miss a great deal.
  David, before he became a Congressman, worked with the vice president 
at the White House in the Executive Office Building down there on the 
Council on Competitiveness. He was the Executive Director there. He did 
an outstanding job for the Vice President Quayle, and we felt when he 
came to Congress were going to have him with us for a long time and he 
would be a real asset to us. He has been, but, unfortunately, he 
decided he wanted to become the chief executive of Indiana. We all wish 
him well in the campaign, and we will know in another week or so 
whether or not he has been successful.
  In any event, we certainly wish him the best in the future, whether 
or not he becomes the Governor of Indiana, and we also hope, David, you 
will come back and visit us often, because you have been an outstanding 
Congressman and a very good friend.

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