[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10607]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE ED MARKEY ON ELECTION TO SENATE

  Mr. NEAL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. NEAL. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday, June 25, our colleague, Ed Markey, 
was elected to the United States Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, from the Adams family to the Kennedy family, 
Massachusetts has sent great talent to the United States Senate, and 
always a reminder that John Kennedy served in this House and thought it 
was a privilege before he went to the United States Senate.
  I also will just say a couple of personal things about our colleague. 
Nobody ever walked away from Ed Markey and said he didn't know what he 
was talking about or that he was uninformed. He engages the debate 
fully. And I must tell you, having known him for more than three 
decades, he is fulfilling a personal ambition--in addition to which he 
has promised me that he will take the humility of this institution and 
bring it to the United States Senate.
  The last point that I think is very important and a reminder to all 
of us, in the polling data that led up to Ed's victory, by 15 points 
the people said they thought it was his experience that would serve him 
well. That was the deciding factor in why they sent him to the United 
States Senate.
  A round of applause for our friend, Ed Markey.

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