[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23904]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO PAUL GILLMOR

  (Mr. SENSENBRENNER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week the House of 
Representatives lost a giant, and the people of Ohio and indeed all 
Americans lost a true legislative workman with the passing of 
Congressman Paul Gillmor.
  When I first was elected to this House, I was told by former 
President Gerald Ford, who served with distinction here for many, many 
years, that there are two types of representatives: The workhorse and 
the show horse. The show horse, you see their face on TV all the time 
and they issue bombastic press releases. It is the workhorses that get 
the work done in this Chamber for the American people.
  Paul Gillmor was a workhorse. Not only was he a workhorse and a true 
legislative craftsman, but he applied what those of us who live in the 
upper Midwest refer to as Midwestern common sense. We think that we 
have maybe more of that than those that live in other parts of the 
country. But Paul's Midwestern common sense meant that the legislative 
activities that he was engaged in were done professionally and were 
done for the benefit of all Americans.
  I am sorry to see Paul pass. We have all lost a giant. Cheryl and I 
send our condolences to his wife and his children.

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