David Obey: “Let me simply say that I want to join the gentleman in taking note of Terry's tremendous service to this place. I think…”

“Let me simply say that I want to join the gentleman in taking note of Terry's tremendous service to this place. I think Members in both parties who worked with Terry Peel understand that he has really epitomized what the word ``service'' is all about. He has been of tremendous service to this House. He has been of tremendous service to this country. He has been the ``brains'' of many of us for years on complicated foreign assistance programs, and he must have an incredible disposition to be able to deal with that bill as long as he has and still smile as regularly as he does and still find the energy to write the plays that he has managed to write the past few years. I appreciate the time he has taken and I appreciate the time that his wife Ann has allowed him to give us and the country in so doing.”