E656 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks April 14, 1999 through his generous contributions. Aside from August 1988, when Huntington became, for a She has been a volunteer for Dan Quayle being a model citizen, Mr. Morelli contributes day or two, the center of the political uni- since his earliest House campaigns and she his time as a volunteer firefighter in Glenwood verse. passed her trial by fire when she helped put When George Bush surprised nearly every- together the 1988 Bush-Quayle rally on three Springs. Tom Morelli responded to 447 calls in one by naming Dan Quayle his running mate days’ notice. 1998. In recognition of his many years of dedi- on the Republican ticket, editors, producers Quayle knows Hiner and the Huntington cated public-service, he has recently been and reporters everywhere scrambled to find County people she has enlisted to help. He awarded the ``1998 Adult Humanitarian Volun- Huntington on their Indiana maps. There trust them to play a pivotal role in a water- teer of the Year Award'' in Garfield County. they hoped to find people who could help shed event in his political career. Quayle’s This award given to special volunteers, who them unravel the mystery of just who this friendships, as well as his roots, run deep give their time and energy to the community. Quayle fellow was. here. It is said by those who are privileged to What the reporters discovered when they It’s impossible to know where Dan got here was that Dan Quayle was anything know him, that Tom Morelli is a quiet and Quayle’s personal journey will take him in but a mystery to the people of Huntington. the months and year to come. modest man who would rather be fighting fires His family had lived here for years. He’d In political terms he’s still a young man, than accepting awards. In my view, this makes graduated from high school here, spent a few likely to be a force in the Republican Party him all the more deserving of this awardÐhe summers at home during college, then for many years to come. His path might not has truly earned it. moved back to Huntington with his wife, often lead him back to Huntington, but when Individuals such as Tom Morelli, who volun- Marilyn, after law school. He went to work he does return he’ll be welcomed with kind teer their time to a good cause, are a rare at his family’s newspaper—where I am em- words and understanding hearts. breed. Fellow citizens have gained immensely ployed—and he and Marilyn even hung out a You shouldn’t expect anything less when Quayle & Quayle law shingle on the second you come home. by knowing Tom Morelli, and for that we owe floor of the newspaper building. They bought f him a debt of gratitude. a house, settled in and began a family. They f made friends they’re still on a first-name INTRODUCTION OF THE JAMES basis with. Small-town life agreed with GUELFF BODY ARMOR ACT OF DAN QUAYLE: A HOOSIER them. CANDIDATE As did big-time politics. 1999 AND THE BODY ARMOR RE- The Quayles moved from Huntington not STRICTION ACT OF 1999 long after Dan Quayle took his oath as a HON. MARK E. SOUDER member of the House of Representatives in OF INDIANA 1977. The Quayles have not spent more than HON. BART STUPAK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES a few days at a time in Huntington since OF MICHIGAN Wednesday, April 14, 1999 then. Dan Quayle last voted at his Hun- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tington Precinct 1A polling place in 1992. He Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Speaker, today is a has returned a few times since for cere- proud day for Northeast Indiana. One of our monies and fund-raisers. Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to own, former Vice President Dan Quayle came It is significant that Dan Quayle, who lives introduce two bills to take body armor out of home to Huntington to announce his campaign in Phoenix after calling Indianapolis home, the hands of criminals and give law enforce- for President of the United States. chooses to return to Huntington for Wednes- ment greater access to body armor. day’s announcement. There’s no strategic In Huntington, we are proud of the Dan My first bill is entitled the James Guelff Quayle Museum, the only museum in the reason to do so. He does not need to work against a rural Midwest backdrop; he’ll be Body Armor Act of 1999, and is named for United States devoted to Vice Presidents. In spending much of the coming year in towns San Francisco Police Officer James Guelff, Indiana, we have had many Vice PresidentsÐ smaller than Huntington as he stumps who was killed in 1994 by a gunman wearing in addition to Dan Quayle, Thomas Marshall, through Iowa. He does not need to curry a bulletproof vest and a Kevlar helmet. More Thomas Hendricks, Charles Fairbanks, and votes; Huntington County and all of Indiana than one hundred officers of the San Fran- Schuyler Colfax are Hoosier Vice Presidents. have been kind to him that way over the cisco Police Department were called to the While William Henry Harrison, who was a years, and the Republican nomination should residential area where the gunman fired in ex- Territorial Governor based in Vincennes be- be decided by the time the Indiana primary rolls around in May 2000. cess of 200 rounds of ammunition. Several of- fore Indiana was a state; and his cousin Ben- Dan Quayle is coming back to Huntington ficers actually ran out of ammunition in their jamin Harrison, who lived in Indianapolis at the because his successful journeys always seem attempt to stop the heavily-protected gunman. time of his election. And there's Abraham Lin- to start from here. In 1976, as a political un- This bill criminalizes the use of body armor coln. We Hoosiers say that Indiana made Lin- known, he launched his first campaign for in conjunction with another crime, prohibits the coln and then Lincoln made Illinois. Congress from the Huntington College stu- purchase or possession of body armor by vio- But Dan Quayle will be our first really Hoo- dent union. He returned there in 1980 to an- lent felons, and enables Federal agencies to sier President. And I'm proud he's from my nounce his ambitions for the Senate. He and donate surplus body armor to local law en- George Bush began their quest for the White district, and I'm honored to hold the same con- forcement officers. This bill will begin to ad- gressional seat he did. House in 1988 from the south steps of the Huntington County Courthouse. dress the imbalance between the numbers of My friend Mike Perkins wrote the following Dan Quayle was not supposed to have a criminals who posses body armor and law en- article in the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette that prayer against the popular J. Edward Roush forcement officers, who do not posses body summarizes our feelings. in 1976. But he won. Birch Bayh was thought armor. Today, nearly 25% of all local law en- [From the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette, April to be all but unbeatable when the 1980 cam- forcement officers are not issued body armor. 11, 1999] paign began. Quayle beat him. George Bush The FBI, DEA, ATF, INS, and U.S. Marshals had to overcome Michael Dukakis’ early lead WHY QUAYLE ALWAYS RETURNS while Dan Quayle stood up under a withering are just a few of the federal agencies that (By Mike Perkins) media barrage in the fateful first weeks of have surplus body armor and would be able to A few minutes after noon Wednesday, Dan the 1988 campaign. And they won. donate it to local jurisdictions. Quayle will step to the microphone in a Quayle is not the early favorite for the Re- My second bill, titled the Body Armor Re- packed gymnasium at Huntington North publican nomination in 2000. Sound familiar? striction Act of 1999, prohibits the mail order High School and make history by announc- Dan Quayle knows he can expect a warm sale of body armor. I introduced this bill in the ing he is a candidate for president of the reception from the people in his hometown. 104th and 105th Congresses and hope we United States. Community pride in having sent a congress- It will be a big story on a national basis man, senator, then vice president into the can pass it this year to keep body armor out and a very big story for the small town of political arena transcends party affiliation of the hands of criminals. I have heard from Huntington, the place Dan Quayle still con- for most people in Huntington County. Even law enforcement officers all across America siders his hometown. those who disagree with Dan Quayle’s poli- about the increasing occurrences of drug deal- As it first did in the summer of 1988, the tics can admire the man behind the issues ers and other suspects possessing body national media spotlight will again fall on and the way he reflects their values and armor. Criminal elements are being trans- the community. It will focus on the place, their beliefs. formed into unstoppable ``terminators'' with vir- In large part Wednesday’s rally will be a the people and the attitudes that helped tually no fear of police and other crime fight- shape Dan Quayle. That’s one of the reasons local production. Hundreds of volunteers he’s coming back here on such an important have been mobilized. Work has been under ers. These heavily-protected criminals are ca- day in his life. way for weeks. The person at the eye of the pable of unleashing total devastation on civil- While we’ve hardly used to such attention, organizational hurricane is Marj Hiner, co- ians and police officers alike, and the increas- it can’t be quite as bewildering as it was in owner of a Huntington trucking company. ing availability of body armor in the wrong