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Sam Farr: if I may, on the remainder of the time of the gentleman from New York [Mr. Rangel], I wanted to give this time because…

On the recordJuly 25, 1996
if I may, on the remainder of the time of the gentleman from New York [Mr. Rangel], I wanted to give this time because when I arrived here, I just wanted to say that one of the Members that I remembered first meeting was Hamilton Fish. The reason that I remember it so distinctly is that his cousin Stuymie Fish lives out in California and as anybody who has ever been on the Monterrey Peninsula knows, the Fish Ranch is this beautiful piece of property that everybody can see. So you have the Fish family well known all the way from New York to California and from Monterrey and Carmel all the way back to the East Coast. It was a pleasure to be able to give you some time since you could pay this tribute to a well-respected friend of us all and even friend to those like me. He was only here a short while while I was here but I was very impressed and we got to talk a little bit about the family relationship between the East Coast and the West Coast.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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Paying tribute to Hamilton Fish and reflecting on his family connections.

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