[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 16266]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CLARK R. LAW

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                          HON. DAVID L. HOBSON

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 5, 2002

  Mr. HOBSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the achievements 
of Clark R. Law, who for the past 14 years, has served as the President 
and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Ohio Philanthropic 
Homes for the Aging, a nonprofit organization that represents more than 
350 nonprofit long-term care facilities located in more than 150 Ohio 
towns and cities.
  Clark has been an aggressive leader in working in Columbus and in 
Washington on behalf of AOPHA-member facilities that serve more than 
50,000 elderly Ohioans daily and employ more than 20,000 people 
statewide.
  Before coming, to Congress, I served as the Chairman of the Committee 
on Health, Human Services and the Aging. I knew I could always rely on 
Clark Law and AOPHA to provide sound advice and to bring any problems 
affecting seniors to my committee's attention.
  Clark's efforts were instrumental in helping win approval of the 
Seniors Healing at Home Act. This bill is now a federal law, and 
provides seniors the option of where they choose to recuperate 
following a hospital stay.
  After making sure that we in Congress knew that this problem was 
impacting seniors, AOPHA took up the charge by making its members 
available to testify, and helped spread the word that seniors were 
being negatively affected by Washington's Medicare bureaucracy.
  In all the years I have known him, Clark has never been shy about 
standing up for those seniors who rely on AOPHA to be their voice in 
matters of public policy. His willingness to get involved and to fight 
hard on behalf of Ohio's seniors and assisted living care professionals 
has improved the quality of life for thousands or Ohioans.
  As Ohio's Seventh District Representative to the Congress of the 
United States, I take this opportunity to publicly recognize Clark R. 
Law and his achievements on behalf of Ohio's senior citizens. His 
contributions to the quality care of the elderly in our state are too 
numerous to list and I thank him for his years of dedicated service.

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