[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 26525]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        TRIBUTE TO GALE VAN HOY

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                           HON. NICK LAMPSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 7, 2000

  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor Mr. Gale Van Hoy, the 
current executive secretary of the Texas State Building and 
Construction Trades Council. Mr. Van Hoy will retire on December 31, 
2000, and I thought it fitting to enter into the Congressional Record a 
mention of his contributions to Texas. He has served the working men 
and women of Texas well, and I thank him for that.
  Mr. Van Hoy has represented the interests of 50,000 skilled 
construction workers from across the state of Texas before labor, 
political and business leaders on a local, state and national level. He 
has worked to secure jobs, equal opportunity, fair wages and benefits, 
and on-the-job safety and health protection for members. Gale has been 
active in the labor movement throughout his entire adult life, serving 
as a member of the AFL-CIO, on the Oversight Committee of the Capitol 
Preservation Project, and serving on the National Advisory Committee 
that had oversight on the conduct of an OSHA-funded study of contract 
workers' safety in the U.S. petrochemical industry.
  The former mayor of Houston, Kathryn Whitmire, even declared October 
22, 1983 as Gale E. Van Hoy Day--what an honor!
  Today I want to recognize Gale Van Hoy's great service to the people 
of Texas, and to this Nation, and to thank him, on behalf of the Ninth 
Congressional District for his 40 years of dedication.

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