House Proceeding 03-10-09 on Mar 10th, 2009 :: 1:10:40 to 1:14:15
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Leonard L. Boswell: opportunity to thank jim for his many years of service to iowa and our nation and i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida. speaker. may i inquire from the gentlewoman from maryland if she has additional speakers. ms. edwards: i have one

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Speech By: Leonard L. Boswell

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Leonard L. Boswell: speaker. mr. diaz-balart: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maryland. ms. edwards: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from iowa, mr. boswell. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from iowa, mr. boswell, is recognized for three minutes. mr. boswell: i rise in support of h.r. 887, to honor my former colleague jim leach. jim served iowa for three

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Leonard L. Boswell: decades, winning elections 14 times and he's a superb example to awful his colleagues, to awful us. he was born in davenport, iowa, where he made a name for himself for wning the state wrestling championship in his

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Leonard L. Boswell: high school. jim began his public service career in 1965 as a staffer to then congressman don rumsfeld. in 1968 he entered the foreign service where he served as a delegate to the geneva disarmament convention. he resigned his commission in 1973 to protest richard nixon's

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Leonard L. Boswell: firing of the watergate special prosecutor cox. he was elected in 1976. he was always willing to reach across the aisle. he joined two organizations formed encouraged bipartisan policymaking. in congress, jim distinguished himself as a steadfastly, ethical and independently

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Leonard L. Boswell: minded public servant. he supported diplomacy before unilateralism, pushing for full funding for u.s. obligations to the u.n. as chairman of the armed force -- armed control and policy caucus, jim pressed for comprehensive test ban. jim was also one of the only six house republins to vote

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Leonard L. Boswell: against the 2002 iraq war resolution. jim's postcongressional career has been no less extraordinary. he holds eight honorary degrees and has received declarations from two foreign governments. he is the recipient of wayne morrison integrity award, the adlai stevens award, the edgar

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Leonard L. Boswell: award from the sierra club and the norman borlag public service award. jim continues to serve the public on the boards of several public companies and nonprofit organizations, including the carnegie endowment for peace, the common cause, which he chairs. additionally, he's many of the council of foreign relations

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Leonard L. Boswell: and teaches at princeton university at woodrow wilson school as the visiting professor of public and international affairs. jim is not only a remarkable public servant but good friend. it was a tremendous honor to serve longside of him. i'd like -- alockside of him. i had -- a longside of him.

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Leonard L. Boswell: horace daggett, truly community people, iowans, americans and put the country first. jim was a privilege to know as the person he was, the person that he is, the person that reaches out and continues to serve us with distinction and someone that we all can be