Ed Markey: “I thank the gentleman from Springfield, Mr. Boland's successor in Congress. Eddie was elected as a State Representative…”

“I thank the gentleman from Springfield, Mr. Boland's successor in Congress. Eddie was elected as a State Representative in 1932 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President, and left in 1988 as George Bush was about to be elected President. He carried the same values throughout all of those years, and he came to be known, for all of those who are still here who served with him, as a legislative giant. He lived with Tip O'Neill for 24 years as roommates in an apartment here in Washington, for the first 24 years of his career, before Tip brought Millie down when he was elected Speaker; and they said for those 24 years, the only thing that was ever in the refrigerator were cigars and orange juice. In a lot of ways, with his passing, for Massachusetts politics, passes an era as well, that Tip O'Neill and John McCormick and Eddie Boland span the years in representing.”