[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2899-2900]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              HISTORICAL LEGACY OF RONALD AND NANCY REAGAN

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the great honor and 
privilege of appearing before the House Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policies to share with them my thoughts on the 
historical legacy of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
  And yet perhaps a greater honor to me was listening to the eloquent 
words of Caspar Weinberger, Jeane Kilpatrick, Peggy Noonan, and Martin 
Anderson. These close friends and trusted colleagues of the Reagans 
reflected on the dedication of our 40th President and his wife Nancy to 
our great Nation.
  Even the former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, 
submitted a letter to the subcommittee expressing his deep respect for 
former President Ronald Reagan.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be the sponsor of H.R. 3591, a bill to 
award the Congressional Gold Medal to Ronald and Nancy Reagan. 
Currently, this bill has approximately 280 cosponsors. It is a 
bipartisan effort to bestow a fitting tribute on the Reagans in 
recognition to their dedication and commitment to public service and to 
our country.
  I encourage all of my colleagues to become cosponsors of H.R. 3591 
and join me in saying ``thank you'' to the Reagans for dedicating so 
much of their lives to the people of the United States.

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