Romano Mazzoli: “ladies and gentlemen, my former colleagues, how great it is to see everyone and be with you today. The association…”

“ladies and gentlemen, my former colleagues, how great it is to see everyone and be with you today. The association serves many purposes, and under the excellent leadership of Lou Frey, our friend from Orlando, and the able staff work of Linda Reed, Walt Raymond, and the group, we really maximize the bounce for the buck. As a result of the work that has been done, the association affords us, as former Members, a chance to come together in this beautiful Chamber, which holds so many memories for all of us, as the scenes of our legislative efforts for our hometowns and States. It also affords us an opportunity, through the Campus Visit Program, to visit campuses around the country. It was my pleasure to visit the alma mater of Dick Lugar, our colleague from across the Capitol, Denison University in Granville, OH, last springtime. It was a wonderful visit. I spent time with the students and the faculty. Our association also offers opportunities to travel abroad. As our President said, Congressman Lujan and I did travel to Mexico. We spent a week there in June of last year between Mexico City and Guadalajara. There are many memories. We had meetings, as all of us have, with parliamentarians, with the academic community, with the business community, the government leaders, our counterparts in the assembly. We came away with many feelings. We filed that, Mr. President, in a full report which you have, I think, received permission to file in the Record.”