Maxwell Frost: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On behalf of the Democratic Caucus, I would like to welcome all of you. It is good to see many…”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On behalf of the Democratic Caucus, I would like to welcome all of you. It is good to see many of you I served with, and some of you I did not. You will be welcomed, I believe, in a few minutes also by the current majority leader, Mr. Armey, who will be a former Member next year. Mr. Armey is not running for reelection. The work that you do on college campuses I think is particularly important. I know a number of you have devoted a great deal of time to that. I was just with former Speaker Jim Wright this last weekend, who teaches a course at TCU in Fort Worth; and each year he keeps saying he is not going to do it again. But I asked him is he going to go back next fall, and he said, yes, he is. I can tell you, I am one of his guest lecturers. He lets me come in and speak to one of his classes once a year. I have gotten some very good former students of his working on my staff both in Washington and in my Texas office. So I want to encourage all of you to continue to do this. I know our former colleague, Dan Glickman, is taking this to the extreme. He will be at Harvard 4 days a week starting in August, and maybe some of us will come up and visit Dan in that capacity. Again, I want to thank you for the work you do when called upon to help us in the House of Representatives.”