Robert Matsui

Mr. MATSUI

Mr. MATSUI. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes and 30 seconds to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Levin). (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich).

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire of the amount of time we have on our side?

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes).

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Filner).

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Waters).

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the student loan interest rate compromise that was passed last night as part of H.R. 6, the Higher Education Amendments. This bill, with strong bipartisan support, offers a sensible solution to the pressing problem of the interest rate change scheduled for July 1, 1998. There has been a lot of discussion regarding the appropriate interest rate for student loans. The Department of Education insists that lenders can absorb much larger yield cuts to student loan interest rates without any disruption to the student loan program. Yet they are actively seeking to arrange more than $5 billion in emergency funding in case they are mistaken. Banks and other student lenders vehemently disagree. They have consistently argued that a 0.3 percent reduction in guaranteed loan yields will drive away many lenders, especially small community banks. They also argue that remaining lenders will be discouraged from making loans to high risk borrowers, such as those attending community colleges and trade schools. Yet so far no lender has announced its withdrawal from the loan program. Suffice it to say, we simply do not know what the impact of the yield cut will be on the guaranteed student loan market. What we do know is that we cannot afford to allow our student loan program to collapse because of this dispute. No one wants to run the risk that any student in their home district will be unable to get their student loans this Fall. But we must act now because the beginning of the Fall award cycle is less than 60 days away. The compromise reached in H.R. 6 corrects the interest rate calculation and ensures that student loans remain available for all students. For this reason, I find the Administration's veto threat over this interest rate compromise to be somewhat disconcerting. Two years ago, this Congress called for a bipartisan solution to the direct versus guaranteed student loan debate. In the spirit of that decision, we voted overwhelmingly last night in support of this carefully crafted compromise. I urge the Administration to recognize this bipartisan effort and support the interest rate compromise so that we may ensure that no students find their access to financial aid unnecessarily denied.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Chairman, I ask that the Record reflect that I voted the wrong way on the Riggs amendment. I intended to vote no. I made a mistake and voted the wrong way. Limiting Debate Time on Amendment No. 79

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts and the gentleman from Georgia for yielding the time to me. Mr. Speaker, I urge very strong support of the rule. A vote against this rule will really be a vote against this bill. This bill will not come back up if this rule fails today. If in fact we lose this rule, we are not going to be able to bring this bill because the whole essence of this bill is the whole issue of trade and textiles. I will tell the Members, there is a lot of misleading information that has been passed around over the last few months. This bill will not do any damage to the U.S. textile industry. The fact of the matter is that right now, Africa gives about two-thirds of 1 percent of all U.S. textiles to the United States. In 10 years under this legislation, it will only go up to about 1\1/2\ percent. That is not going to do any damage. In fact the reality is it probably will not result in any more textiles coming to the United States than currently, mainly because we will see a displacement. Other countries in Asia will probably have less shipments of textiles as a result of this. This will only create, according to the International Trade Commission, which has done an objective study, about 600 jobs lost in the United States. The job gain will be phenomenal over the next 10 or 20 years. Africa has 680 million people. There are 48 nations in this region that we are talking about. Thirty of them right now are moving to a market system of government and a market system of the economy, just like the United States. Twenty-five of them have fledgling democracies. Are we going to turn our backs on this great region of the world that over the next 20, 30, 50 years will be one of the regions of which all of us are going to want to be part? Because for national security purposes, for obvious purposes of making sure that the Asian nations remain stable and the Middle East remains stable, Africa will be essential to the security of the free world and certainly of the United States. A vote against this bill will break up the partnership between the United States and the African nations. The fact is that the President, in the next 3 weeks, will be going to Africa. If we turn this bill down, it will be a disgrace to this country.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Rangel), obviously the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Crane), the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott), the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Jefferson), and many others who have been really pushing this very historic piece of legislation. I really urge strong support of this African trade act. It will go a long ways in showing our relationship and our involvement with the African nations. What we really have here are 48 nations in the lower sub-Saharan area, 680 million people. The average per capita income of all the 48 nations is $500 per individual. Anybody in this country who thinks that we cannot compete with these 48 nations who think that, with their $500 per capita income, with our education levels, with our universities, with our research and development, with our infrastructure, I just cannot believe that anyone would think that those 48 nations are a threat to us. They are not a threat to us in textiles. They are not a threat to us in any way. What we would be doing with these nations, by joining them in an African trade agreement, is to bring these 48 nations into the cooperative trading worlds of the nations that we have with us. Essentially, what we are talking about is providing a democratic foundation for these countries. Right now, of the 48, 30 of them are democracies. In addition, as you know, another 30 or so are market- oriented countries. What we want to do is establish a relationship that will go well into the 21st Century, because this continent, this region will be one of the great regions over the next 20, 30, and 50 years. That is why this legislation, it is a small start, but it is so very important in terms of the free world and in terms of working together in a cooperative fashion.

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Mr. MATSUI. Madam Chairman, I would like to thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding time to me. I would like to commend both the gentleman from Michigan and gentleman from Florida, chairman of committee and the ranking member of the subcommittee. They have done an outstanding job in putting together a bipartisan consensus. I truly appreciate their efforts and the fact that they showed a great deal of sensitivity to some of the States, obviously like Michigan, but particularly a State like California. It was obvious that the penalties that were imposed some 10, 12 years ago were much too stringent. To take away all of the AFDC monies for the failure of creating the incentive program, it just was not a realistic penalty suggestion. As a result of that, everybody, including the State of California, knew that enforcement would not occur. But this is a realistic proposal. This is one in which I believe it is incumbent upon the States, particularly the State of California, to comply with. Back in the mid-1960s, Sacramento County, my county, actually had a child support enforcement section of the Sacramento County DA's department. That was being run at that time by an attorney Virginia Mueller, who was a Cornell graduate. We have had great success in Sacramento County. But in the State of California today, unfortunately, in all 58 counties we have a performance rate of 14 percent, absolutely shameful. I have to say that this is just the other side of the welfare reform bill that was passed last year. Last year we were focusing on the custodial parent, usually the mother with minor children. This year we will be focusing on the noncustodial parent, usually an able-bodied male who may have another family and is disregarding the requirements and obligations that he had to his other family, the family that is now impoverished. As a result of that, we need to do a better job. This bill will go a long way in doing that. I want to just conclude by making one further observation. I mentioned California's performance rate is 14 percent. It is outrageous, and it is one in which I believe that if we could get it up to 50 or 60 percent, we could actually eliminate a lot of the TANF payments and probably eliminate a lot of the taxpayer burden on welfare payments. So I will not under any circumstances in the next 3 or 4 years support any effort by California to seek a further waiver, further extension of the penalties. I think these penalties are reasonable, and the State of California with the technological know-how we have should not have any problem integrating all 57 counties in order to make a system that collects payments from anybody throughout the State of California. I want to urge strong support for this legislation, and hopefully we will be able to work with the other body in order to move this legislation before we adjourn.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today to pay tribute to our colleague Congressman Ronald Dellums. As you know Congressman Dellums' 27 year career in the House will soon end as he retires from public service on Friday, February 6, 1998. A former Marine and graduate of San Francisco State University and the University of California, Mr. Dellums has spent the better part of three decades advocating the progressive social policies endemic to the Ninth District of California. Compromising the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, the Ninth District has long served as a stage for the healthy exchange of political dialogue. Upon arrival to the capital in 1971, Mr. Dellums won a seat on the Armed Services Committee as an opponent to the Vietnam War. He is quick to point out that our former preoccupation with the Cold War and the Soviet Union adversely impacted our public policy decisions. His contention that this preoccupation led to large federal debts and underfunded social programs inspired his fight for social responsibility. Mr. Dellums lent his voice to those who called for cuts in defense spending and pleaded for the redirection of those funds to social programs. Mr. Dellums has demonstrated time and again that social justice fosters peace amongst us all. He has been a strong proponent of policies such as the 1991 Civil Rights Restoration Act, the Americans with Disabilities Acts and the reauthorization of the 1967 Voting Rights Act. He also has been one of the most vocal advocates for reproductive choice and public funding for women dependent on government supported health care. Mr. Speaker, I have had the honor and privilege of working with Mr. Dellums to secure redress for World War II Japanese-American internment camp internees. As battles raged overseas, many Americans incurred wounds of injustice on our own soil. Mr. Dellums recognized this breach of civil liberties and fought for the reparations due those wrongly imprisoned in their own country. Few could replicate Mr. Dellums' noble sense of justice. In 1971 he introduced a bill which would enforce economic sanctions on the apartheid regime of South Africa. Patience and persistence prevailed when, in 1986, Mr. Dellums finally won the fight with passage of the bill. His determination paid off, democracy reigns in South Africa and apartheid is no longer. Mr. Speaker, in recognition of Mr. Dellums' years of dedicated service to the people of the Ninth District, his commitment to the advancement of progressive social policies and the leadership he has given the Armed Services and House District of Columbia Committees, I ask my colleagues to join me in saluting him and wishing him a very happy and active retirement.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, we rise today to pay tribute to one of Sacramento's most respected and effective labor leaders, Mr. Richard L. Mayberry. This evening, Mr. Mayberry's many friends and colleagues will commemorate the conclusion of his tenure as an officer with the Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522. ``Dick'' Mayberry has been affiliated with the Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522 for 26 years. He has served as an Area Director, Vice President, and, for the past twelve years, he has held the post of President. A native of Sacramento, California, Dick Mayberry is a veteran of the United States Army and the father of two. He joined the Sacramento Fire Department in 1964 after serving one year as a correctional officer. Mr. Mayberry's leadership abilities allowed him to achieve the rank of Apparatus Operator in 1975, three years after he first became an officer in the Sacramento Area Fire Fighters Local 522. In 1985, Dick Mayberry assumed the presidency of Local 522 and quickly established himself as one of our community's most influential champions of labor. This position soon led him to a variety of other important labor and civic posts. Among these, Mr. Mayberry was a Sacramento County Civil Service Commissioner from 1984 to 1994, chairing that important body for two terms. He has also been a member of the Industrial Relations Association of Northern California for thirteen years, serving as an officer for two terms. Since 1985, he has been Vice President of the Public Employee Council and an Executive Board Member with the Sacramento Central Labor Council, our city's most prominent representative labor body. Mr. Mayberry's other notable labor positions include the chairmanship of the Board of Publishers of the Sacramento Labor Bulletin and membership in the International Association of Fire Fighters. Mr. Mayberry has been most forceful in his capacity as the chief negotiator for the City of Sacramento's fire fighters. In performing this key duty, with the pay, benefits, and working conditions of his membership hanging in the balance, Mr. Mayberry achieved his reputation for professional excellence. In 1995, he retired from active service with the Sacramento Fire Department, but that did not preclude him from passing on his occupational expertise to other fire fighters. In this regard, he has worked as a member of the California State Board of Fire Services since 1996. Dick Mayberry's unique labor and fire fighting background has led him to represent our community's fire fighters before the Civil Service Commission regarding examinations, classification, and disciplinary matters. He has also attained a strong grasp of the issues involving the merger, consolidation, and reorganization of fire districts. Mr. Speaker, Dick Mayberry has led a remarkable career in Northern California. He has come to personify integrity and drive in Sacramento's labor community. We ask all of our colleagues to join us in saluting his 26 year record of achievement with the Sacramento Area Local Fire Fighters.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to a former member of this body, my mentor and predecessor in this House, The Honorable John E. Moss. As Congressman Moss is memorialized today in the city which be represented so well, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in saluting his remarkable career in public service. Throughout the twenty-six years he represented the Sacramento area in this House, he served with distinction as an effective and compassionate champion for his constituents. As a skillful legislator, he played a key role in shaping and passing some of this century's great legislative achievements, all the while keeping the interests of his district at the forefront of his concerns. Born in the state of Utah in 1915, John Moss' family moved to Sacramento, California in 1923. There, he went to school and married Jean Kueny in 1935. The couple would have two daughters. After serving in the Second World War, Congressman Moss was a businessman, but he soon heard the call to serve in the public sector and he won a seat in the California State Assembly in 1948. Just four years thereafter, at the age of thirty-three, John Emerson Moss was elected to the House of Representatives, a position he would fulfill admirably for the next twenty-six years. One of Congressman Moss' first orders of business was to persuade then-President Harry S. Truman to approve the construction of a dam along the American River at the town of Folsom, just east of Sacramento. In a sign of his political prowess, Congressman Moss was able to successfully lobby the White House to support this important project. His other early achievements included winning federal support for the Sacramento Airport and the surrounding military bases. John Moss steadfastly represented and served as an advocate for a great cross- section of Californians living in Sacramento, regardless of party affiliation or political persuasion. Yet his commitment to the needs of his district never overwhelmed his core devotion to civil and human rights, and to truth in government. From 1955 until 1966, John Moss devoted much of his time in this House to winning passage of the Freedom of Information Act. His crusade to create and enact a law which would allow for a more open, understanding, and responsible government was perhaps his greatest achievement in Congress and would earn him the title of ``Father of the Freedom of Information Act.'' By the early 1970s, he had risen to the leadership of the House, serving as high as deputy majority whip under both Congressmen Carl Albert and Hale Boggs. At this same time, as the Watergate saga began to unfold and the U.S. involvement in Vietnam wound down, John Moss served as one of the great consciences of the House, always calling for greater government accountability and responsiveness to the concerns of the people. As his career concluded in 1979, Congressman Moss could look back and see a great string of legislative and political achievements: The 1970 Federal Clean Air Act, the creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and reform of the nation's anti-monopoly laws, to name but a few. Mr. Speaker, since Congressman Moss' passing, tributes have come forth from President Bill Clinton, former President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, and countless other prominent Americans and Sacramentans. His passion and drive in defending the First Amendment, advocating consumer and environmental protection, and looking after the needs of his Sacramento constituency has cemented his legacy as one of this century's great legislative leaders. On a personal note, as my friend and mentor is eulogized today, I ask all of my colleagues to join with me in honoring this great and caring husband, father, and legislator.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to an educator, activist, and leader of national prominence: Mary Tsuruko Tsukamoto. Mrs. Tsukamoto passed away on January 6, leaving a tremendous legacy as a teacher, activist, and hero to countless Americans. Today, in Sacramento, California, she will be fondly remembered at two separate memorial services. The child of immigrants from Okinawa, Mary Tsuruko Dakuzaku was born in San Francisco in 1915. Her family moved to the Florin area just south of Sacramento in 1925. There, she attended segregated schools. By the beginning of World War II, she has married the man with whom she would spend the next six decades, Alfred Tsukamoto. In 1942, along with their five year old daughter, Marielle, the Tsukamotos were among the more than 10,000 Japanese Americans interned in government camps around the U.S. After the end of World War II, the Tsukamotos returned to Northern California. Al took a job at the Sacramento Army Depot, while Mary began her vocation as a teacher in 1950. It was in her role as educator that Mary Tsukamoto first began to touch the lives of so many in the Sacramento area. Her unique ability to connect with young people became the trademark of her teaching career at four different elementary schools until her retirement in 1976. But Mary's retirement from teaching in the Elk Grove, California School District was just the beginning of the most influential period of her life. Her family's forced internment during World War II had left a profound mark on her personal and political beliefs. Fueled by the injustice of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans, Mary launched a courageous crusade to right this national wrong. In the 1980's Mary joined the fight in support of a national apology and reparations for the Japanese Americans interned during World War II. These efforts included testifying before a congressional committee about the lasting negative impact that the imprisonment had on Japanese Americans throughout our nation. Without her steadfast and vocal championship of this legislation, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, including an apology and reparations, would never have become law. On a very personal note, Mary's friendship and support during this often difficult legislative battle was invaluable to my colleagues and I as we fought for the reparations bill. I will always value the unique perspective, encouragement, and dedication she offered throughout this important effort. By the time President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 into law, Mary had become a nationally-recognized leader in preserving and promoting the Japanese American heritage. She helped create and plan an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution about the internment and she authored a book on the subject. Mary also launched an important effort to catalogue and preserve Japanese American artifacts, personal histories, and photographs with the creation of the Japanese American Archival Collection at California State University, Sacramento. Her activism in these areas, and reputation as a national leader in the fight to provide restitution to the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated during the Second World War, brought her back into the classrooms of Sacramento area schools as a unique source of historical information for our community's students. In conjunction with the Florin Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, Mary set out to retell the glorious and sometimes painful history of Japanese Americans in the twentieth century U.S. Yet Mary Tsukamoto's activist endeavors were not limited solely to the imprisonment issue. She also found time to lead Jan Ken Po Gakko, a group which preserves the Japanese heritage in the United States. Her involvement in this organization enhanced her already remarkable pursuits in putting together lectures, creating displays, and writing about the internment of Japanese Americans. By the early 1990's Mary Tsukamoto's achievements were gaining recognition throughout California. In 1992, a new elementary school was named after her in the Vintage Park area of South Sacramento. In May of 1997, she was named a ``Notable Californian'' by the California State Senate and State Capitol Museum, making her the second person to ever receive this high honor. Last September, she was presented with the California Asian Pacific Sesquicentennial Award for all of her accomplishments in the Asian/American community. Mr. Speaker, as Mary Tsukamoto is eulogized today by her many friends and admirers, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in paying tribute to this extraordinary activist, teacher, and powerful leader. Her impact on our national heritage and the very fabric of who we are as a country will be felt for many generations to come. I salute her personal strength and determination in educating her fellow citizens, pursuing justice, and promoting the heritage of all Japanese Americans.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to rise today in tribute to Ms. Susan Strong, former executive director of the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services [CARES]. Located in Sacramento, CA, CARES provides a unique mix of out- patient, state-of-the-art medical care, mental health counseling, health education and case management services, and psychiatric services to persons living with HIV and AIDS. In 1988, it took a tremendous collaborative effort among northern California's major public and private health care entities to establish the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services as a community- based clinic. Under the leadership of Susan Strong, CARES grew to become a major regional HIV/AIDS non-profit clinic in northern and central California. Its growth is a testament to the professional abilities of its former executive director. The dream of establishing a centralized location in the downtown Sacramento area to provide quality health service while coordinating with other AIDS service providers was fully realized under the stewardship of Susan Strong. Since the founding of CARES, the epidemic of HIV and AIDS has changed dramatically, impacting more women of color, a community whose special needs are varied and great. Under the guidance of Susan Strong, CARES established a Women's Clinic to meet these special concerns. As executive director, Ms. Strong steered CARES to ensure that the depth and breadth of its services continually expanded and strengthened while serving an ever-increasing and demanding client case load. It is through Susan Strong's inspiration, dedication, and hard work at CARES that the Sacramento area and the entire northern California region has benefited in the successful operation of these programs to care for those suffering from HIV and AIDS. Although Ms. Strong departed from her position as CARES executive director last month, the foundation of compassionate care which she laid so well will carry-on for years to come. Since its founding, CARES has served approximately 3,000 infected people and maintains an active caseload of approximately 1,200 clients at this time. These patients rely upon the extraordinary specialized medical expertise which CARES provides. Without the steady guidance of Susan Strong, CARES would not be the great success story that it is today. Mr. Speaker, today I ask my colleagues to join with me in saluting the remarkable work of Susan Strong, a great leader in the area of coummunity-based HIV and AIDS health care in Sacramento. I am confident that her selfless endeavors at CARES will endure well into Sacramento's future.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw the attention of my colleagues to an organization that calls itself the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute [CAPACI]. It is my understanding that this group was formed in the Spring of 1995 to promote Asian-American involvement in politics, and members of the Asian Pacific American Caucus were put on the board of directors without their knowledge or permission. Realizing this, in March 1996, nearly every member of the Asian Pacific American Caucus signed a letter to Ms. Francy Lim Youngberg, executive director of the institute, removing our names as board members and clarifying that, while we may share the goals of the institute in promoting political involvement by Asian Pacific Americans, we are not affiliated with the organization, nor are we in any way responsible for their actions or statements. I point this out to my colleagues because it is reasonable to assume that an organization that calls itself a congressional caucus institute would be associated with or answerable to the congressional caucus or its members. In fact, I have had many conversations both on and off Capitol Hill in which people refer to this group as your institute, meaning mine. It is obvious to me that the most effective way for this group to avoid this kind of confusion in the future is to change its name, removing any stated affiliation to the Congress or the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Indeed, the caucus' chair, our colleague Representative Patsy Mink, has requested such a name change both verbally and in writing. Yet to this day the organization continues to use the misleading name creating more confusion. Mr. Speaker, as I stated earlier, I wish to do no harm to any outside organization pursuing laudable goals such as those espoused by this particular group. However, in light of the fact that this group continues to represent itself in a misleading manner, I feel it necessary to state for the record that the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute, despite what the name would indicate, is not affiliated with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus or the Congress in any way.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the late Dean Gordon D. Schaber of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Today, as Dean Schaber is remembered by his family and many friends at a memorial service in Sacramento, CA, I ask my colleagues to join me in saluting this extraordinary giant in the fields of law, politics, and community service. Gordon Duane Schaber was born 70 years ago today in Ashley, ND. Dean Schaber overcame a childhood bout with polio to excel at his academic pursuits. In 1938, he moved to Sacramento where he graduated from McClatchy High School as class valedictorian in 1945. He went on to graduate second in his class at Sacramento State College in 1949. Gordon Schaber found his calling in the legal profession early on. By 1952, he had graduated with honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. In a remarkable 5 years, Gordon Schaber became dean of McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, making him the youngest law school dean in the nation at the age of 29. For the next 34 years, Dean Schaber served as the driving force behind McGeorge's transformation from a small, unaccredited night school to an internationally recognized leader in the field of legal education. This evolution of McGeorge from an institution with a low academic profile to world prominence is owed to the tenacity and dynamism of Gordon Schaber. While fulfilling his duties at McGeorge as an energetic administrator, teacher, and mentor to scores of law students, Dean Schaber also served as the presiding judge of the Sacramento Superior Court from 1965 to 1970, the youngest person to ever hold that post. During this same time, he guided McGeorge through its accreditation from the California Bar in 1964, and its historic merging with the University of the Pacific in 1966. McGeorge's 9,000 alumni include 160 judges, many members of the California Legislature, district attorneys, city attorneys, and a member of this House. Dean Schaber's proteges represent the very best in the American legal community, including the Honorable Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Anthony M. Kennedy. Yet Dean Schaber's influence extended far beyond our nation's lawyers and legal scholars to include a bi-partisan collection of five governors of the State of California, as well as Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. His intelligence, deft political abilities, and wit made him a friend and confidant to many of our nation's greatest leaders. As a loving uncle and son, Gordon Schaber was always committed to nurturing the fabric of his own family. He had a very special relationship with his nephew, Randall Schaber, for whom he became a surrogate father after his own brother's untimely passing. Of course, Gordon Schaber treated his hundreds of friends as family members; his retirement and birthday celebration in 1992 drew over 800 people in a living tribute to the breadth of his influence and community involvement. At that time, he was named ``Man of the Year'' by the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the same organization which had recognized him as ``Young Man of the Year'' some 30 years earlier. In 1991, Dean Schaber received the American Bar Association's highest honor for service in legal education, The Kutak Award. Mr. Speaker, Gordon Schaber's intellect, generosity, and good will made him one of Sacramento's most respected and loved citizens. His selfless devotion to McGeorge School of Law, his family, and friends has set the standard for community service in our State and in our Nation. As Dean Schaber is remembered at today's memorial service, I ask each of my colleagues to join me in recognizing his exceptional life's work and tremendous spirit of purpose in the community he loved so well.

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Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MATSUI. Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.