House Proceeding 09-22-08 on Sep 22nd, 2008 :: 2:36:46 to 2:47:29
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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: member l,of the committee on appropriations. a mr. israel: i thank my dear friend for the time. t i rise to demand equal tim ee, mr. mcnulty. the the gentlewoman from new york talked about yohaving

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Steve Israel: chinese fo od from time to time. mr. ackerman and mr. mcnulty and i have shared itadlian ress -- food in washington, d.c. as it is a rule, practice and , custom and tradition in this

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Speech By: Steve Israel

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Steve Israel: chamber that we refer to each re other as the gentleman or he gentlewoman. and no muslim of this body more deserves the title of gentleman than mike mcnulty. he is a gentleman in every true sense of the

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Steve Israel: word. gary, mike and i sit together. and sitt ing with mike is like sitting on a n island of civility and decency. that's not to say that mike doesn't figh t for his hi principles. he fights

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Steve Israel: for his principles, not by shoving people out of the way, but with a quiet and respected determination and he has been doing it for 20 yearsng. some members of this body h aving been

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Steve Israel: here for 20 ybeears, might grow jaded and may take it for grant ed and may forget what a g lorious place this is. not mike. he was quoted in "congressional quarterly" saying especially at night

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Steve Israel: when the capitol is litap up, i still pin ch myself, it is an honor to serve here. nothing has made mike more proud than seourving here in this capitol except his family. i met his family here in

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Steve Israel: washingt on and when i visited albany. al and when he introduceswh them to any of his colleagues, i can't think of anybody prouder than mike mcnulty. always a gentle smile, a glie,nt in his eye.

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Steve Israel: his constitu ents have had ad remarkable treasure representing them in washington. i know they will miss him in wi washington, but they gain him n at home. mr. speaker, o ne of my favoritevo

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Steve Israel: poe et cetera is rud yard a kippling and one of my favorite poems is "if." when if you kwheep your head, if you can trust yourself when all lf men doubt you, and he goes on, if you can tal k with

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Gary L. Ackerman: crowds and keep your virt ue or walk with wi kings or lose the common touch, o if neither foes nor loving friends hurt you, if you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seco nds worth of

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Speech By: Gary L. Ackerman

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Gary L. Ackerman: distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in h it, and which is more, you will be a man my son.be we know that mike is a great man, but more than that, he is th a gentleman,

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Gary L. Ackerman: who still pinches himself late at night under ar gloriously lit dome that has been made better and brighter r from his presence here and for the work he will don't to do for our country. i

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Gary L. Ackerman: yield back my time. mr. ackerman: i want to remind the gentleman that he's still alive. thank you very much, mr. israel, for that eloquence. now one of the newer members of our delegation, celebrity

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Gary L. Ackerman: in his own right, chair of the subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial affairs ff and on transportation and infrastructure and global warming and veterans affairs, the honorable john hall.

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Gary L. Ackerman: mr. hall: thank you congressman and mr. speake r. i rise to honor my distinguished colleague from new york, co ngressman mike ke mcnulty. after nearly 40 years of public ea service, congressman

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John Hall: mcnulty is retiring and will rebe sorely missed. i will resist the suggestion of one of our fellow new york delegation m embers to sing thatng "he's still the one," but i will say at the age

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Speech By: John Hall

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John Hall: of 22 he was elected as supervisor of o green island, makigrng him the th youngest sup ervisor of new ew york. and he has served as mayor and as assemblyman and 20 years as a congressman.

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John Hall: while his role may have changed, his dedication d,for fighti ng for new york's capital region have remained constant.t. mike is known as a worker. i have observed that in the short time i

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John Hall: have shbeen here. as the chairman of the t subcommittee o n social security, he has worked to make sure that r seniors received re the benefi ts that they need. n in economic times where that

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John Hall: effort is even more important m than ever and when we can see how important it was that he was there to help protect against stprivatizing thatth social security. i have only been hi onored

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John Hall: to serve one term in this body with mike, but have already been impressed by cooperation and team work that he brings to th the new york delegation. in additio n to gentleman, i would add the

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John Hall: word statesman. some of us get m ore excited about issues. that doesn't m ean that you care more or less about them, but mike's temperment has impressed me in its evenness. and i think that

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John Hall: we could usse a good dose of that here from time to time, because we have , on both sides of the aisle and even in our own caucus, we have strong feelings about the th issues critical, important

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John Hall: and immediate issues that we faceac. so, i will be sad that at theha end of this session, we will be il saying good-bye to congressmanss mcnulty, but i'm glad he's here to help us deal with the serious

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John Hall: issues we have on our ou plate, that we have -- the country is facing, thesey difficult times with the thoughtfulness, the work ethic and level headedness that he at brings to the

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John Hall: congress. and i wish you, congressmanon mcnu lty, the best of luck and good times as you retire from the house and return home to h your family and your district. it's been an honor to serve

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John Hall: with you. i yield back. mr. ackerman: ladies and gentlemen of the house, i'm not addressing the speaker as i should, because it's quite unusual for those of us here on the floor controlling

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John Hall: the time to get a reque st from the speaker pro tempore important, who wishes to step dowwin fromom the chair in order to address the house. so, mr. speaker,ak it's my privilege and pleasure dto

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Gary L. Ackerman: yield some time to representative from the 4th district of pennsylvania, member of the house committee on susmall business, commit, tee on education and labor ucand transportation and infrastructure,

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Gary L. Ackerman: speaker, pro tempore, congressman jason altmire. mr. altmire: i know it is unusual to come down from the chair and i didn't want our colleagues to think and the american people to think

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Jason Altmire: that new york has monopoly on the mike mcnulty fan club, because i count myself as i'm sure every member of thiser house in that group. i was a staffer on capitol hill in the e arly 1990's

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Speech By: Jason Altmire

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Jason Altmire: and people always ask now and even then why is it so infrequent i that you see large groups of people in the chamber? ha you seem to be speaking, and ak there's not a lot of pe'eople there.

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Jason Altmire: people are backing in their offices and watching it tv. and at the staff level, you do the same thing. hi you pay attention what's happening on the house floor. and as a very young staffer

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Jason Altmire: beginning in 1991, i learned rn about the house and i learned about the procedures oedf the house while watching what was going on. oi in those days when democrats had control of congress befol

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Jason Altmire: re the 14 years they lostrs it, no one was seen more in the n chair than mr. mcnulty. lt and i learned so much asso a young staffer about this fe institutio n by watching mr. mcnulty in

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Jason Altmire: the chair. in and i could not sit without thinking of the great pleasant irony for me that on ty his night when we are honoring mr. mcnulty that i wasmc actually in the chair. so i wan ted

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Jason Altmire: to come down and tell you that the spirit of mr. mcnulty is certainly go to go live in this chamber for a long, lo ng time and legacynd lives on through his many t legislative accompligishments and

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Jason Altmire: countless, they have to number in the th ousands, constituents services, countless accomplishments, but the spirit will remain with in each of us s who had th e honor to serve with him. a,

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Jason Altmire: it's not just new york that holds you in high esteem, but i'm a better person who having known mr. mcnulty and a better house member. me so i thank mr. mcnulty. so i yield my time back to

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Jason Altmire: mr. ackerman. mr. ackerman: mr. speaker, if i r, can us e some of the remaining time. this is a very fast moving place. there are a lot of peop ale that are pretty hard charging here over

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Gary L. Ackerman: the 26 years that irs have e been here and certainly over the history of the congreshes. and reme mber them because they're loud, boisterous, thunde ring. some people would say eloquent, referring

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Gary L. Ackerman: to some, but all too often we don't notice the quiet heroes w ho make all the difference, who come here to our nation's capital not for themselves, but unashamedly to represent only and exclusively