[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 537]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         FAREWELL TO THE PAGES

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, today we will be saying farewell to the 
pages who have served this House so well. They are standing in the back 
of the Chamber here now. We wish to thank you for your service.
  I've been on the Page Board for about 30 years. Speaker Tip O'Neill 
appointed me to that board, and this has been a tremendous group of 
pages. You've worked hard, you've worked well, and you've worked 
honorably.
  You've seen history. You've seen a change of party control of this 
House. You've seen our joys and our sorrows. You witnessed the sorrow 
we all experienced and you experienced when a Member of this House was 
attacked back in her district.
  There is a program called Close Up where people come to Washington, 
people your age, to observe the Congress, and they learn a lot. It's a 
great program. But no one sees the Congress as close up as you do. And 
we appreciate the fact that you recognize that as a great 
responsibility and a great honor, and you will go back home and tell 
others about this Congress.
  I think you can tell them that everyone who serves in this Congress, 
even though we may have differences--sometimes very sharp differences--
the one thing that does bind us together is that everyone here in this 
Congress loves this country.
  Go back and tell them that we are imperfect people trying to make a 
more perfect Republic.
  I yield, Mr. Speaker, to my colleague on the Page Board, the 
gentleman from Utah (Mr. Bishop).
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Thank you, Mr. Kildee. I appreciate it.
  Mr. Speaker, the young men and women who are standing behind the bar 
and at the back of our Chamber here today are great young men and women 
who have served us well over this past semester. We appreciate you. 
Both Ms. Keating and Ms. Sampson have said this is probably the best 
behaved group of pages we've ever had. I don't know if you want to take 
it further than that, but you have done a great job and we appreciate 
you.
  Mr. KILDEE. I want to thank Mr. Bishop and Ms. Foxx, who also served 
on this committee. We have enjoyed our work, and you've made our work 
very enjoyable.

            Departure Ceremony Page Names Fall Class of 2010

       Haley Alderete
       Carissa A. Almendarez
       Alexandra Baker
       Shraddha Batra
       Bethany Blakeman
       Christopher Michael Tydingco Borja
       Derek Kristopher Bowdle
       Taylor Brooks
       Hunter Layne Chapman
       Fernando Chavez, Jr.
       Josilyn Chowen
       Joseph Cortes
       Nicholas Dellasanta
       Hannah Elizabeth Dillman
       Domine Ezechukwu
       Melissa Lynn Finno
       Megan Fleming
       Gerardo Flores
       Ashley Nicole Flowers
       Hector Javier Garcia
       Derek Gartee
       Megan Greeley
       Kallie A. Hargrove
       Kaitlin Elaine Hinojosa
       Kathryn Elizabeth Hopper
       Peter Alex Kanjorski
       John D. Kohler
       Ra'Nisa Kyles
       Olga Lefebvre
       Josiah Lippincott
       Schaeffer Mallory
       Gomez J. Martin
       Jacqueline McGrath
       Hannah Mery
       Meghan Myhill
       Diona Okunbo
       Rachel Olivares
       Tyler Olkowski
       Cemal Ozgur
       Joshua L. Perry
       Tyler Jacob Petersen
       Brendan J. Pfaller
       Levi Andrew Phillips
       Alexis Robbins
       William Douglas Rodenberg
       Caroline Saca
       Nicole Marie Santeiro
       Kameron Simmons
       Everett Sotelo
       Camden Scott Wiggins

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