[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 1049-1050]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             TRIBUTE TO FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN VIRGINIA SMITH

  (Mr. OSBORNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OSBORNE. Mr. Speaker, this last month, former Congresswoman 
Virginia Smith died in Sun City, Arizona, at the age of 94. She served 
the Third District of Nebraska for 16 years through eight terms. It is 
a very large district. It covers 80 percent of the State of Nebraska, 
with 69 counties and 64,000 square miles. She and her husband, Haven, 
drove county to county, city to city, weekend after weekend; and there 
was no one who was more faithful in covering that area and being loyal 
and faithful to her constituents than Virginia Smith.
  She served on the Appropriations Committee for several years and was 
responsible for an animal research center in Clay Center, Nebraska, 
which really is of worldwide renown. She was tenacious, she was 
aggressive, and she was very strong in constituent services. Nebraska 
was very well served by Virginia Smith, and she will be greatly missed.

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