[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10975-10976]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WELCOMING REVEREND JOSEPH J. KLEINSTUBER

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I am very, very pleased to welcome to our 
midst Father Joseph Kleinstuber, a constituent of mine and an 
extraordinarily loved leader in our area. Father Kleinstuber is pastor 
of St. Mary's Church located in my district in Bryantown.
  Father Kleinstuber was born in Washington, D.C. He attended Gonzaga 
High School, as well as Georgetown and George Washington Universities 
before going on active duty as an officer in the Air Force. He spent 3 
years in the Air Force as chief of the Aviation Physiology Department 
at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas.
  Following his military service, he studied at St. Vincent Seminary 
and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1964.
  Prior to coming to St. Mary's, Father Kleinstuber served as an 
assistant pastor of St. Anthony Church in the District and St. Andrew 
the Apostle

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Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. He also worked for 25 years at St. 
John's College High School here in Washington as chaplain, director of 
counseling, a member of the science department, and, of interest to our 
Speaker, wrestling moderator.
  Since 2001, Father Kleinstuber has been at St. Mary's serving as the 
pastor of this more than 200-year-old parish where he is affectionately 
known by the students at St. Mary's Bryantown Catholic School as Father 
K.
  I want to thank Father Kleinstuber for his dedicated service to the 
citizens of Bryantown and St. Charles County, and I wish to extend my 
gratitude and that of my colleagues to him for leading us in this 
morning's prayer.
  Father, we wish you well and thank you for your leadership in so many 
different areas that have made our country a better place.

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