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“THANKING COLLEAGUES AND STAFF” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6848-H6849 on Sept. 4, 1997.
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THANKING COLLEAGUES AND STAFF
(Mr. CALLAHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. CALLAHAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues on the subcommittee that helped so tremendously in the drafting of this bill and especially to the gentlewoman from California
[Ms. Pelosi], the ranking member of the subcommittee and to the staff people: Mark Murray, as well as Carolyn Bartholomew; to the committee staff on our side, Charlie Flickner, John Shank, Bill Inglee, and Lori Maes, for their tremendous assistance in the handling of this very controversial piece of legislation.
As Members can see, if we work in a bipartisan spirit toward the accomplishment of a goal, we can achieve great numbers success. And certainly the numbers on final passage of this bill today reflect that.
We hope that we will be able to resolve with the Senate some of the differences that we have and are optimistic that we will do so. But without the tremendous success of all of the Members, including my staff person, Nancy Tippins, who worked so tremendously with me on this, we would not be where we are today.
We are going to send to the President and to the administrative branch a good bill. I think under the leadership of the State Department of Madeleine Albright that the administration certainly will have an adequate amount of money to spend in the fashion that they see fit, especially if the Senate sees fit to adopt the procedures that we have sent to them today.
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