[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6764]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     RETIREMENT OF MARK FITZGERALD

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, as we are in the midst of this important 
debate on the war supplemental, immigration, and other pressing issues, 
all over America things are happening that don't always make it to this 
floor.
  This week in my State and in my home city, where I was born, Atlanta, 
GA, there will be a retirement. Mr. Mark Fitzgerald will retire from 
his years of service with the Home Builders Association of Metropolitan 
Atlanta, an association he has built to become one of the largest in 
the United States of America. He will be honored. There will be 
testimonials. There will be gifts. But the greatest gift is the service 
he and his association have given to the economy of our State, for the 
betterment of our State, and in the entrepreneurship and freedom that 
we all love in this great country of ours.
  So I want to pause this moment and let the Record of the Senate 
reflect that this week, as we debate the issues of the day, all over 
America there are those who have given their lives in service to their 
country through the free enterprise system.
  Today and this week, in Georgia, one Mark Fitzgerald is one who will 
be honored. I commend him for his service, his commitment, and his 
citizenship in this great country and in our home State.

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