Welcoming the Honorable John Campbell to the House of Representatives

WELCOMING THE HONORABLE JOHN CAMPBELL TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -- (House of Representatives - December 07, 2005)

(Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, when our former colleague, Mr. Cox, was nominated by the President to become the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, it obviously created an opening in one of the most beautiful congressional districts in the entire country in Southern California; and we are very pleased that our new colleague who has just been sworn in, John Campbell, was elected.

John Campbell has an extraordinary history in California. As I look around the Chamber, Mr. Speaker, at our colleagues, very few of them actually have roots in California. The fact of the matter is John Campbell has roots that extend deeper than, frankly, anyone that I know. Our State is a little more than 150 years old; and yet in 1860, the year that Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, John Campbell's great grandfather was elected to the California State legislature. So 145 years later, we have John Campbell now coming to serve in the United States House of Representatives, to me the greatest deliberative body known to man.

Mr. Speaker, on behalf of all of our colleagues from California, from both sides of the aisle, it is a great privilege and honor for me to congratulate and to welcome our new colleague, Mr. John Campbell.

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