[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 17]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  COMMENDING THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS

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                             HON. RON PAUL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 29, 2008

  Mr. PAUL. Madam Speaker, I would like to commend a very determined 
newspaper in my district, the unsinkable Galveston Daily News. The 
stories of Hurricane Ike continue to be told as the area begins to 
recover, but the Galveston Daily News never stopped their reporting in 
the midst of this deadly storm. I am told the entire roof of their 
building was blown away, flooding the interior, leaving them with no 
equipment except a single working cell phone, and still, they missed 
not one single issue. With cooperation from other area papers, the 
Herald Zeitung in New Braunfels for layout and the Victoria Advocate 
for printing, every single issue promised readers will be available to 
them, even if some homes have been impossible to deliver to. I am also 
told that many reporters and employees of the paper endured heavy 
personal losses. They obviously consider their roles as communicators 
within and for the community of Galveston not as a mere job, but as a 
personal calling. It is devoted Texans and Americans like those at the 
Galveston Daily News that make this country work, and I applaud them.

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