[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12277-12278]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE CARRIE MEEK, MEMBER OF CONGRESS

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I am here to speak on behalf of guys with 
white hair, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Moran), the gentleman from 
California (Mr. George Miller), and me. The gentlewoman from Florida 
(Mrs. Meek) used to play the game with us all the time; and we knew she 
knew who we were, but she would play like she did not. But her sense of 
humor and her ability to reach down into people's souls really makes 
the difference.
  Many Members come here and we all think or we all try not to lose 
touch with where we came from; but there is no question, when the 
gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) speaks on this floor, there is no 
question that she has not forgotten where she came from or the people 
around her, who they were, and what they struggle with.
  Her voice has been a consistent and solid voice for the people in 
this society we try to give a hand up to, but the gentlewoman from 
Florida would never let us get away with just trying. She insisted that 
we do it. We are going to miss her, and they are going to miss her. All 
of us are going to miss her coming up the aisle saying, ``the gentleman 
from Virginia, Mr. Moran.'' We are going to miss her a lot.

[[Page 12278]]



                          ____________________