[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 9654-9655]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     A TRIBUTE TO ISRAEL VELAZQUEZ

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 21, 2011

  Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Israel Velazquez.
  As founder and President of Velazquez Associates, Inc., and its 
subsidiary Velazquez Accounting Services, a New York based accounting 
and nonprofit development consulting firm that bears his name, Israel 
Velazquez has worked tirelessly to develop partnerships with community 
leaders, development corporations, and other public and private 
partners.
  For the past thirty years, Mr. Velazquez, known as ``Izzy'' to many, 
has assembled public and private partnerships in the areas of

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local community issues, affordable housing and economic development 
projects in urban cities throughout the United States of American and 
in several Caribbean islands.
  Mr. Velazquez holds a Master's in Taxation from Long Island 
University in Brooklyn, NY and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and 
Mass Communications from C.U.N.Y., Hunter College. In 2009, Mr. 
Velazquez was designated an adjunct Professor in the Gates Foundation 
and Warren Buffett Enterprises Fellows Program.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in celebrating Mr. 
Velazquez's extraordinary achievements.

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