[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE TIM ROEMER

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                         HON. NICK J. RAHALL II

                            of west virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 19, 2002

  Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to one of the 
most highly regarded members of the House of Representatives, the 
ranking member of the Subcommittee on Select Education, Tim Roemer, 
from Indiana's Third District.
  As David Broder, the esteemed Washington journalist wrote of Tim, he 
is ``ending a singularly useful House career by retiring.''
  Throughout his 12 years as a member of the House, Tim has focused on 
important matters aimed at improving our way of life such as education 
and the AmeriCorps program. Likewise, he brought his considerable 
talents to bear as a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence.
  Most notably, his tenure here has been marked by his consistent 
willingness to put aside partisan differences in effort to find 
reasonable and worthwhile solutions.
  I recently had the privilege of working with Tim on a matter that we 
both considered to be very important, the Adams Memorial, which will 
honor our second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail. As the 
ranking member of the Resources Committee, which passed the bill out, 
I'm proud to say that President Bush signed the bill into law last 
year. Similarly, just the other day, the House passed legislation 
approving the Secretary of the Interior's decision on placement of the 
memorial.
  Mr. Speaker, Tim is the embodiment of the true civil servant who 
interrupts his career in order to serve his Nation. And when his 
service is complete, he simply chooses to return to private life as 
still a young man with great potential for even more achievement.
  While we here will miss Tim and his valuable contributions, we wish 
him well as he returns to private life, and most importantly, to his 
wife and their children.

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