[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27713-27714]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 WELCOMING THE HONORABLE JOHN CAMPBELL TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, when our former colleague, Mr. Cox, was 
nominated by the President to become the chairman of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, it obviously created an opening in one of the most 
beautiful congressional districts in the entire country in Southern 
California; and we are very pleased that our new colleague who has just 
been sworn in, John Campbell, was elected.
  John Campbell has an extraordinary history in California. As I look 
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the Chamber, Mr. Speaker, at our colleagues, very few of them actually 
have roots in California. The fact of the matter is John Campbell has 
roots that extend deeper than, frankly, anyone that I know. Our State 
is a little more than 150 years old; and yet in 1860, the year that 
Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, John 
Campbell's great grandfather was elected to the California State 
legislature. So 145 years later, we have John Campbell now coming to 
serve in the United States House of Representatives, to me the greatest 
deliberative body known to man.
  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of all of our colleagues from California, from 
both sides of the aisle, it is a great privilege and honor for me to 
congratulate and to welcome our new colleague, Mr. John Campbell.

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