[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 21197]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING CONGRESSWOMAN EVA CLAYTON

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 16, 2002

  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, if we had the opportunity to vote on the 
decision, our colleague from North Carolina, Eva Clayton, would be 
denied the right to retire at this time. In the coming Democratically 
controlled House of Representatives, her leadership abilities will be 
missed more than ever. Eva Clayton is the model of the quiet but 
effective power broker. In the very beginning she was elected president 
of her Freshman class; at the conclusion of her career in Washington, 
she served as the Chair of the Board of the Congressional Black Caucus 
Foundation. Before the more serious retirement tributes begin, I would 
like to offer this serious but lighthearted sketch of Eva Clayton 
through the RAP poem below:

                           City Girl Clayton

     City girl
     With a kind country soul,
     Chameleon Lady Eva
     For any royal role.
     Lips leak logic always cool
     Anger at injustice
     From a deep volcanic pool;
     North Carolina Style
     Magnetism reaching a mile
     Kidnaps with a Southern smile;
     Lady spider for ambitious flies
     She can paralyze just with her eyes.
     City Girl dresses
     Always in sophisticated fashion
     Practices methods
     To check eager passion;
     Stingy with her caresses
     Continuously she assesses
     Steps over any messes;
     She can strut through a downpour
     And never get wet,
     Top prizes race into her net--
     Power is her pet.
     City Girl
     With a kind country soul
     Chameleon Lady Eva
     For any royal role.

     

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