Wendy Sherman: “this country has lost a leader of depth and integrity. We in this House have lost one of our own. Bettye and Cary have…”

“this country has lost a leader of depth and integrity. We in this House have lost one of our own. Bettye and Cary have lost a husband and a father, and I have lost a role model and a friend. We in the California delegation have lost a leader and a mentor, and we have been thunderstruck with the fourth sudden death in our delegation in 4 years. {time} 1145 Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from Indiana pointed out, we often use the term ``gentleman.'' But no one better exemplified that term than Julian Dixon. He showed us honor, he was a conciliator, a wise voice even when others were gripped with emotion. Yet under that calm demeanor was a man of passion who fought for education and civil rights and the dispossessed, a man who cosponsored virtually every civil rights bill of significance over the last 20 years and who obtained funding for the same Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance, Tools for Tolerance program in Los Angeles, a man who was placed on the Intelligence Committee and the Ethics Committee because of what he could bring in intelligence and in honor to those committees, a man who cared very much for the two cities in which he spent his life, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles where he did so much to provide transportation for our city. Mr. Speaker, we have lost a great man. He will be missed.”