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“HONORING COMMISSIONER JACK BUELL FOR ACTS OF CARING” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Transportation was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E627 on April 25, 2001.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
HONORING COMMISSIONER JACK BUELL FOR ACTS OF CARING
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HON. C.L. ``BUTCH'' OTTER
of idaho
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Mr. OTTER. Mr. Speaker, this week is National County Government Week. Countless counties across the country are represented in Washington, D.C. to honor outstanding elected officials who do so much to serve their communities. As a former Lieutenant Governor of Idaho for fourteen years, I have had the privilege of working with many fine officials on the county level. One of those officials is Mr. Jack Buell.
For the past twenty years, Jack has ably represented the citizens of Benewah County, Idaho as County Commissioner. He's a Democrat. But that isn't what distinguishes Jack. A lifelong Idahoan, Jack was born in St. Maries, Idaho. He married Eleanor, his wife of 39 years, raised a family and built a successful trucking business. Through the years, he has developed affiliations that have benefited the citizens of Idaho--
including, the Idaho Department of Transportation Advisory Board, the Idaho State Scaling Board, and the timber industry, in which he now serves as President of the Associated Logging Contractors, and as Chairman of the Idaho Forest Products Commission. In that last capacity, he has passionately led the timber industry at rallies throughout Idaho, Montana, and Washington with caravans of diesel trucks.
And even those mighty achievements do not explain why I honor Jack Buell today. In 1996, during heavy flooding and cleanup efforts in St. Maries, Jack selflessly donated the use of virtually every piece of heavy equipment he owned to help move homes to safety, provide escape for trapped victims, and help rebuild the flood-ravaged community. That experience, and many others, resulted in his community and peers awarding him the Idaho Association of Counties Sidney Duncombe Award.
Jack is a good friend, a solid family man and businessman, and he deserves my thanks, and thanks from fellow county officials--and Congress--for his service to communities and citizens in Idaho.
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