[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 23089]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TRIBUTE TO J.B. HUNT, SR.

  (Mr. BOOZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOOZMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of a 
great Arkansan, a giant of American business who passed away yesterday 
morning, J.B. Hunt of Springdale, Arkansas.
  He built a billion-dollar trucking business from humble beginnings, 
and in the span of a lifetime went from a sharecropper's son to the 
employer of over 16,000 people and a major force in shaping the economy 
of the Third District of Arkansas.
  He donated to charities, he was very, very active in his church, and 
was known to carry $100 bills in case he ran across somebody who needed 
help immediately. When asked why, he explained, I was hungry once, a 
lesson we can all learn from.
  I knew him when I was a young man, when he had absolutely no idea who 
I was; and I knew him when I was a young professional in my community, 
and later on as his Congressman. He was the kind of man that treated me 
the same in regard to all of those stations in life.
  He was a wonderful man, and certainly our prayers are with him, his 
wife Johnelle, his family, and his company which lives the American 
Dream every day.

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