[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Pages 26009-26010]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ED ROYBAL

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I, too, would like to rise to honor the life 
of

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Ed Roybal, a great Member of this House with whom I had the pleasure of 
serving for many years when I first came here back during the 1980s. I 
would have to say that no one fought harder for health care, 
particularly for senior citizens and Social Security and Medicare, than 
the great congressman from the State of California, Mr. Roybal.
  He had a quiet strength about him and great dignity, and he treated 
Members with such graciousness. I certainly remember how he treated me 
when I first came to the House as a new Member. There were only 24 
women serving in the House at that time. I think it is fair to say we 
have come a long way since then, but Ed Roybal is someone who 
especially was kind to the women and to the new Members, and I shall 
never forget him for that.
  He helped me in my own campaign when I was running for reelection in 
my district back in the mid-1980s when there was an effort made to 
distort votes on Social Security and Medicare, and Ed Roybal came to 
set the record straight.
  I would like to extend to his daughter, who I know he is smiling on 
today as she serves here in this Congress, and to his entire family the 
greatest sympathy from the people of Ohio who thank him for the efforts 
toward which he dedicated his life. I know that the senior citizens who 
continued to receive Social Security and Medicare during the decades of 
the 1980s and 1990s and now into the 21st century have Ed Roybal to 
thank for that.
  Condolences to the entire Roybal-Allard family on the passing of this 
great American gentleman and lawmaker.

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