October 19, 2005 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 23251 In addition, H.R. 2070 will direct the rev- States to play an active role in international ef- CONGRATULATING CHIEF MARTIN enue from the windfall profits tax to Ameri- forts to bring peace to the Middle East and KENDZORA FOR WINNING THE cans who buy ultra efficient cars made in throughout the world. 2005 PEACEKEEPER’S AWARD America. These individuals would receive a Joe’s reputation as a hard-working legislator $6000 tax credit. The credit would be phased in, and cars that achieved 65 miles per gallon and an outspoken, progressive Democrat will HON. ROBERT W. NEY not be forgotten. I know many of my col- would receive a full tax credit. Today aver- OF OHIO leagues continue to rely on Joe’s guidance age cars get less than 30 miles per gallon. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This tax credit will stimulate the market in and advice and wish him well in his new en- ultra efficient vehicles. deavors. Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Lastly, the bill makes funding available to Mr. Speaker, on behalf of all of my col- Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker: regional transit authorities to offset signifi- leagues here in Congress I again want to con- Whereas, Martin Kendzora and the St. cantly reduced mass transit fares during gratulate Joe Hoeffel on being recognized as Clairsville Police Department continue to as- times of gas price spikes. Providing low-cost Montgomery County’s Democrat of the Year. mass transit will slow demand for gas and sist the Tri-County Help Center combat do- ease the price of gasoline, benefiting all Although his service in Congress has come to mestic violence; and Americans. an end, I know Joe will continue to work on Whereas, Martin Kendzora supports the f behalf of the people of Montgomery County, Family Visitation Center and worked with the , and our Nation for many years staff there to develop safety plans; and CONGRATULATING FORMER to come. Whereas, Martin Kendzora has been the CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH HOEFFEL f consummate professional in dealing with the CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF staff and clients of the Tri-County Help Center. Therefore, I join with family, friends and the HON. ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ VIVIAN MALONE JONES OF PENNSYLVANIA entire 18th Congressional District of Ohio in IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES congratulating Chief Martin Kendzora for win- HON. ARTUR DAVIS ning this prestigious award. Wednesday, October 19, 2005 OF ALABAMA f Ms. SCHWARTZ of Pennsylvania. Mr. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Speaker, Joseph Hoeffel honorably rep- Wednesday, October 19, 2005 IN RECOGNITION OF THE SERVICE OF MR. M.J. ‘‘MIKE’’ ARTS resented Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional Mr. DAVIS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise district for 6 years. And, on October 16, I today to offer a tribute to Vivian Malone proudly joined with area Democrats in naming Jones. HON. E. CLAY SHAW, JR. Joe the ‘‘Montgomery County Democrat of the It is my generation’s tragedy that so few of OF FLORIDA Year.’’ us knew the name of Vivian Malone Jones. It IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES As a lifelong resident of Montgomery Coun- is a cruel twist of history that George Wal- Wednesday, October 19, 2005 ty, Joe was elected in 1976 to the first of four lace’s ‘‘stand in the schoolhouse door’’ is itself terms in the Pennsylvania State House, rep- a vivid memory but that the protagonists of the Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay resenting the Abington area until 1984, where event—the ones being stood against—were tribute to a friend and a fixture within the he worked on budget and government reform, off site and out of view. Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce. economic development and programs for sen- Vivian Malone Jones died too young last On Friday, October 21, 2005, after twenty iors. In 1991, Joe was elected to the first of week at age 63. In prose, she was the first years at the helm, Mike Arts retires as Presi- two terms as Montgomery County Commis- black American to earn a degree from the Uni- dent of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of sioner where he fought for open space preser- versity of Alabama. In poetry, she was proof of Commerce. Throughout his tenure, Mike’s vation, community revitalization and reforms of the power of dignified commitment, and was a leadership cut a path of economic growth and patronage and pay-to-play abuses in the trailblazer to young black women my mother’s prosperity transforming his home community, courthouse. age, whose own dreams seemed more attain- Boca Raton. In 1996, Joe ran for the U.S. House of Rep- able when they contemplated her boldness. In 1985, Mike took the reigns of the Cham- resentatives, challenging a freshman incum- Part of Jones’ current anonymity was based ber and faced an daunting task. The Greater bent and losing by just 84 votes. However, he on the choice she made to forge a conven- Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce was deal- returned to the campaign trail in 1998 and was tional career as a government employee, rath- ing with the loss of 10,000 IBM jobs, an inac- successful—earning the opportunity to rep- er than as a traveling icon of the civil rights tive membership and a fledgling downtown de- resent the 13th district in the 106th, 107th, era. She did not frequent the reenactments, velopment plan. and 108th Congresses. Joe campaigned on a the marches, or the annual seminars revisiting Today, thanks to Mike’s leadership, the platform of creating jobs, bettering our public the sixties, and I never recall her weighing in Chamber enjoys a membership of 1,800 mem- school system, expanding access to health on whether the war in Iraq was unjust or bers, the largest business organization in care, balancing the Federal budget, and en- whether a Supreme Court nominee should be Palm Beach and Broward counties. The suc- suring that we have a robust foreign policy. confirmed. cess of the Boca Raton Chamber has been at During his tenure, Joe fulfilled many cam- But these choices of when and where to the center of making the City of Boca Raton, paign promises. He authored various pieces of cast her influence were hers, and they were the envy of municipalities throughout Florida. legislation to better the 13th district and the noble and worthy of respect. And the value Mike’s involvement reaches far beyond Nation, including bills to create a veterans’ Vivian Malone Jones put on respecting Boca Raton. Mike has served as President of cemetery at Valley Forge, to eliminate waste- choices meant that I never heard her offer the Florida Chamber of Commerce Executives ful corporate welfare, to reform Federal sup- those facile denigrations of the caliber of this and as a member of the Cham- port for public schools and to establish a pa- generation’s African American leaders. ber of Commerce. Mike has also supported a tients’ bill of rights. My last memory of Jones is the Newsweek regional business approach that has led South At home, Joe was a constant figure through- cover the week she registered at the Univer- Florida to become a national and international out the community. He was intimately involved sity of Alabama. The cover featured the leader in transportation and international trade. in bringing a public health center to Norristown unattributed quote, ‘‘We owe them—and we As a result of this progressive vision, Mike has and establishing the Center for Sustainable owe ourselves—a better country.’’ It was so been called one of Palm Beach County’s Communities at -Ambler. true, for Jones and her cohorts, and it is so ‘‘movers and shakers.’’ Additionally, he secured Federal funds for the true, for the children of poverty and depressed I have had the privilege of representing the Schuylkill Valley Metro, Title I education, river- schools, for the working poor who are losing residents of Boca Raton and Palm Beach front development in Norristown and Northeast ground, and for the anonymous challengers to County since 1992. As a Member of Congress , the Montgomery County Commu- glass ceilings who are themselves broken for representing a new area, it was an easy tran- nity College and the Abington Arts Center. trying to climb to higher altitudes. Blessed are sition the day I first met Mike. Mike took pre- From his seat on the International Relations those whose courage moves us to make the cious time introducing me around the Boca Committee, Joe also advocated for the United ultimate commitments. Raton business community.

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