NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “as the calendar gives way to August, and 435 Representatives of our great country return to their respective districts…”

“as the calendar gives way to August, and 435 Representatives of our great country return to their respective districts to catch up with constituents, to spend time with family, to, yes, enjoy a portion of the summer, it gives us a chance, in what has been a hectic and crowded legislative schedule, especially recently, to pause and remember what makes this institution unique, not only the representative government in the legislative branch of our constitutional Republic, but also those who serve herein, and those who have served. Two nights ago, Mr. Speaker, it was my honor to welcome back to Capitol Hill one of my constituents, Betty Rhodes, the widow of our former Republican leader, John J. Rhodes, who passed away now two summers ago next month. And as I was honored to be the Congressman for former Congressman Rhodes and certainly honored that his widow, Betty, remains one of my constituents, it is also important to reflect on another Member of Congress who called the Fifth District of Arizona home, and who recently passed on. His name, Joseph Karth. He came to this institution being elected in the year of my birth, 1958, and served until 1977, representing the people of the Fourth Congressional District of Minnesota.…”