[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4526]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING TOM HENNESSY

  (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, Tom Hennessy was a beloved columnist at 
the Long Beach Press-Telegram for nearly 30 years. Tom passed away 
recently with his Duchess Debbie by his side.
  For his readers, Tom was Mr. Long Beach. He was a humorist, he was an 
advocate, he was our favorite uncle, and our closest neighbor.
  He was a friend who lived in the same world, but somehow saw it so 
much more clearly and never shied away from using his Irish wit to say 
so.
  Every morning for three decades Tom was the champion of what was 
right, good, and decent in Long Beach. I was fortunate to have read 
him, I was lucky to have known him, and now I will join his readers, 
his family, and his friends in missing him.

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