[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13706-13707]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          RECOGNIZING TONY LAM

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize my constituent, Mr. 
Tony Lam. Tony fled Vietnam in 1975 during the Fall of Saigon. He was a 
political target because of his work for the United States Government.
  While at Camp Asan in Guam and Camp Pendleton in California, he

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served as a leader for the community of refugees. After settling in 
Westminster, California, Tony won a seat on the Westminster City 
Council in 1992, becoming the first Vietnamese American elected to 
public office in the United States.
  Tony will turn 80 next week on October 4, and I want to take this 
opportunity to congratulate him and thank him for his many years of 
service to the Vietnamese American community and to the city of 
Westminster.

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