Thomas E. Petri: “I rise in tribute to JoAnn Ward, executive director of the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Convention and Visitors Bureau, who…”

I encourage all Members to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I applaud the administration and I applaud the other members of this committee who say, let's take a look at some other sources of revenue, including general revenues.

There are a lot of stories we could tell about the Jim Oberstar, and I think it is probably not fully appropriate to do that at this time but just to say that he was a self- made person, he had great intellectual abilities, and he used…

I thank my colleague for organizing this Special Order and rise just to say a word of thanks and appreciation to Jay Pierson for his 33-plus years of service to this institution and for what he represents. Members of Congress stand in the…