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Dan Burton: “I was just informed by my good friend, Mr. Visclosky, that one of our former colleagues, Jim Jontz, died last Saturday.…”

On the recordApril 18, 2007
I was just informed by my good friend, Mr. Visclosky, that one of our former colleagues, Jim Jontz, died last Saturday. He was a Member of the other party, but he was a very fine man. He had been a State senator and a leader in Indiana for a long, long time. We want to wish his mother and his family condolences, because he was one of the nice guys from Indiana.
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Paying tribute to former colleague Jim Jontz following his passing.

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