[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18754]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PROF. ROBERT V. REMINI

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                           HON. ROBERT W. NEY

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 18, 2003

  Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker, today I wish to honor the esteemed historian 
Dr. Robert V. Remini on the occasion of his 82nd birthday. As many of 
our colleagues know, Professor Remini was appointed as a Distinguished 
Visiting Scholar of American History in the John Kluge Center at the 
Library of Congress to undertake the ambitious project of writing the 
history of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  Dr. Remini, Professor Emeritus of History and the Humanities at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago, was educated at Fordham University 
(B.S. 1943) and Columbia University (M.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1951). He has 
been teaching history for more than 50 years and writing books about 
American history for nearly as long. In addition to his three-volume 
biography of Andrew Jackson, he is the author of biographies of Henry 
Clay and Daniel Webster, as well as a dozen other books on Jacksonian 
America. Remini is also the author of two recent books: John Quincy 
Adams, and Joseph Smith: A Penguin Lives Biography.
  ``The House of Representatives is regarded as the People's House in 
which many distinguished, diligent, colorful, and larger-than-life 
personalities met together and during the past 200 plus years 
discussed, debated, quarreled and helped hammer out the Nation's 
laws,'' Remini said on the appointment of his position to update the 
House History. ``I intend to write a narrative history of this 
extraordinary institution with its vivid and sometimes outrageous 
personalities that will capture and frame all the excitement and drama 
that took place during the past 200 years so that the record of its 
triumphs, achievement, mistakes, and failures can be better known and 
appreciated by the American people,'' noted Remini.
  Working with my colleague, the gentleman from Connecticut, John 
Larson, we believe that Professor Remini's efforts will result in a 
significant tool for the public and Members themselves to understand 
how and why Congress works the way it does and its unique and 
compelling history.
  Please join me in congratulating Professor Remini on the occasion of 
reaching this milestone in his career. We all look forward to working 
with him as he completes the history of the House and to learning the 
lessons it teaches us upon its publication.

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