[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22203]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING JIM SHEEHAN

  (Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memory of a 
man who dedicated his life to public service and once sought to become 
a Member of this House as well. Mr. Speaker, the people of Bergen 
County and the rest of New Jersey lost a dedicated public servant, a 
devoted father and husband and family man and a friend of mine when Jim 
Sheehan lost his battle to cancer.
  Mr. Sheehan spent the majority of his career in public service. He 
worked for a while for the people of Bergen County for a period of 
time. In 1976 and 1978 he was the Mayor of Wyckoff, and after that he 
became a freeholder, from 1991 to 2002, the Board of Chosen Freeholders 
of Bergen County.
  After serving as freeholder for the county, he took on the very 
difficult task of being the chairman of the Republican party in Bergen 
County. Bergen is the last largest Republican organization in the State 
of New Jersey, and though he worked very hard and tirelessly 
strengthening the party of Lincoln, he did so while remaining friends 
and having the respect of people on both sides of the aisle.
  So, Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the people of the 5th Congressional 
District, particularly the folks over in Bergen County, I offer my 
prayers and condolences to the friends and family of Jim Sheehan.

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