[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8623]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING DAVID BLOOM

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, as we look at the tragic loss of life which 
has taken place through this war which, thank God, is being successful, 
there are obviously the families of those men and women in uniform, but 
there are also some familiar faces who tragically have been lost.
  Michael Kelly, we got the word last Friday, was lost; and over the 
weekend, we heard the word that my good friend and a great reporter, 
David Bloom, tragically died.
  I got to know David Bloom because he was a student at one of the 
Claremont Colleges I attended, and we became friends several years ago. 
While he did not cover Capitol Hill, I had the opportunity to travel 
with him, and we were, oh, so proud of his reporting.
  A couple of weeks ago, I had dinner with a Marine Corps general who 
was talking about the great coverage that MSNBC was providing, and 
David Bloom was one of the great reporters. He had that ``Bloom-
Mobile,'' which traveled, as the chaplain just talked about, how we are 
all watching on television. We saw him move and provide fascinating 
reports.
  He was praised by his colleagues over the past couple of days, and I 
just would like to say that my thoughts and prayers go to his wife, 
Melanie, and their lovely daughters.

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