House Proceeding 09-22-08 on Sep 22nd, 2008 :: 2:12:33 to 2:18:08
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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: time and providing us with the h opportunity to say a few things about ou r close friend andnd ally, mike mcnulty. someone with whom we have worked with a long time. i say that myself becausebe

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Maurice D. Hinchey: mike and i have been working ve together first in the stat fe legislature in albanny since 1982. and when i think six yearsea later, 1988, he was elected to the congre ss of the united

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Speech By: Maurice D. Hinchey

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Maurice D. Hinchey: states. and i'm happy to say that i was very envious about the fnvact that he left albany and came to washington. it took me a few years to do it, but in 1993, i came down e here and i

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Maurice D. Hinchey: have been serving with him ever since, both of us here in this congress.s. he's an extraordinary man, m someone with a very remarkable history. he started out in public office because

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Maurice D. Hinchey: of his strong desire to serve other people as the town supervisor on green island. and at the anage of 22, he was elected to be the town wn supervisor . and whewhn he was elected at that age,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: he was the youngest town t supervisor elected in any town in the state of new york. w so, from the very beginning when he first became involved be in public life and working on behalf of

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Maurice D. Hinchey: the general public, he started off in a very remarkable way. after being town supervisor, he was elected mayor. r. and then he was elected to the state assembly in albany and served there

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Maurice D. Hinchey: in a very, very envious sort of way, a so remarkable kind of way, one that made us all pay attention to him. and he was a very, very strerong leader in albany, new york, in , the state

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Maurice D. Hinchey: assembly. . when he came down here to washington, he started off in someth ing else that was even more dramatic. d shortly after he was elected and came h ere, he became a member of the

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Maurice D. Hinchey: ways and means committee, one of the most os important and significant d committees here in this congress. and as a member of that committee, he has done an h extraord inary job. he is now the chairman

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Maurice D. Hinchey: of the subcommittee on social security. and he has done a very wonderful piece ofwo work, strengthening social security, protecting socialpr security, protecting it from people like e

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Maurice D. Hinchey: the president of the united states, who in 2005, wanted to an privatize social security. and if y think about the economic consequences that we're experiencing today as a relt of the huge declines

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Maurice D. Hinchey: in financial institutions, you can ut imagine wh the social security s ystem would look like lo if it hadn't bee n for people like mike mcnulty standing up in and defending social security and making

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Maurice D. Hinchey: sure itki didn't become privatized and remained d strong and went on to serve the t people of our country. one of the ways that mike has served here is to the acting speaker of this assembly,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: this th house of representatives. and he did so, i think probably bl more t han anyone else that i know of. o all the time that he spent t there. and doing that leadership position in such

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Maurice D. Hinchey: an exemplary way. and so , he is someone who has set an example for all eof u from the first time he was elected to be townte supervisor, then as mayor and member of the th state legislature

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Maurice D. Hinchey: stand then coming here to sercove in this house of representatives and to do it in a very remarkablerk way. he's also a person who has demonstrated what it's like to be a strong family man.

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Maurice D. Hinchey: he is marriedrr to nancy m. mc nulty and they have been th married for 37 years. mike and nancy have n four daughters, michelle,ug angela who is often called jody, nancy and maria. and five grandchildren,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: lola, madeleine and daniel patrick and kagen michelle m and morgan n jean legault. a wonderful family. . and i can only say how happy i am to have served with him both in albany and here in

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Maurice D. Hinchey: this he congress of the united states. he has been here for 20 years. and i must say that i'm sorry he's leaving, but i understand that he feels the e respon sibility to spend a little more time

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Maurice D. Hinchey: at home. and that is something, again, that i admire in him. again, for the leadership that p he is providing. so i must say, mr. speaker,r, that this gentlemen from the le state of new york,

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Maurice D. Hinchey: has set a a wonderful example for anyone who wishes to serve the people of their communities, hetheir state and their country by tthhe example that he has set in all of those areas. as

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Maurice D. Hinchey: michael, i thank you. i thank you for everything that ng you've done. on i thank you for your friendship, your leadership and for the examples that you have set for all of us toal hopefully

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Maurice D. Hinchey: follow and be as good in our service as you have rvbeen in yours. thank you, michael, for everything that you've done. i yield back the time. mr. ackerman: we're indebted to congressman hinchey,

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Gary L. Ackerman: known to most of us as mo for his remarks about our good friend mike. and now representinges our downstate constituencies, the e gentlema n from new york, representing the 7th congressional