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July 14, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1747 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CANNON Brown’s youngest appointees and one of sional work product here can be indecipher- HOUGHTELING Jerry Brown’s oldest.’’ Gov. Edmund G. able. Even Shakespeare’s prose makes lighter ‘‘Pat’’ Brown appointed Houghteling to the reading. With the Bard one needs only an State Park Commission, which Houghteling HON. NANCY PELOSI eventually chaired, in 1959; in 1964 he was ap- English-language dictionary nearby. For Bar- OF CALIFORNIA pointed to the State Highway Commission. row’s works, one needs, at a minimum, not IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Houghteling was appointed to BCDC in 1971; only Webster’s but Black’s Law Dictionary, the Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in the mid-1970s, he was appointed chairman Revised Statutes of the United States, the by Gov. Edmund G. ‘‘Jerry’’ Brown Jr., a Statutes-at-Large, the United States Code, Ms. PELOSI. Madam Speaker, I rise to pay post he held until 1982. While chairman, and a pot of strong coffee. tribute to a great California statesman and Houghteling shepherded through the Suisun Writing federal legislation is obviously a public servant, Joseph Cannon Houghteling, Marsh Protection Plan, which shielded 89,000 unique skill and a decorative art form. Pope who passed away on June 23, 2009. acres of wetlands and wildlife habitat from Barrow and his office colleagues have mas- On July 16th, 2009 Joe’s family and friends uncontrolled development. From 1972–1982, Houghteling was on the Metropolitan Trans- tered it. As a practical matter, all of us Mem- will gather on San Francisco’s historic ship the bers untrained as lawyers in our former lives Balclutha to celebrate his life, and I wish to portation Commission. While on MTC, he no- ticed that there was no direct pedestrian ac- would always find ourselves at a disadvantage honor my friend by submitting his obituary cess from the Embarcadero to the ferry land- in any legislature, so we owe Pope Barrow from the San Francisco Chronicle. ing. At Houghteling’s suggestion, a passage- and his colleagues an extraordinary debt of Joseph Cannon Houghteling, former chair- way was built through the Ferry Building to gratitude. He evens the playing field so a car- man of the San Francisco Bay Conservation allow easy access. In 1994, a plaque was in- penter like me can compete with any other and Development Commission (BCDC) and stalled in the Ferry Building to honor Democratic activist, died at home June 23 in Member in this place. Houghteling. In 1984, Houghteling was ap- Madam Speaker, on behalf of myself and San Francisco after a short illness. He was pointed to the bi-state Tahoe Regional Plan- 84. Houghteling spent many years in pro ning Agency, on which he served until 1992. my own staff, and on behalf of the staff of the bono public service, with an emphasis on re- Houghteling also was president of the Na- House Administration Committee, I wish Pope gional government, transportation and the tional Maritime Museum Association from well in his next endeavors, whatever they may balance between conservation and develop- 1992–1994. He was instrumental in bringing be. May Pope Barrow always look back over ment. When he stepped down as chairman of the submarine the USS Pampanito to Pier 45. his 40 years here as fondly as will his office BCDC, The Chronicle editorialized ‘‘He has Houghteling lived in Palo Alto, Los Gatos colleagues and every Member of this House. served with wit, style and patience . and and Atherton. After moving back to San f has brought a spirit of compromise to its re- Francisco in 1978, he kept a home in Portola sponsibility of allowing development but Valley for many years. Houghteling is sur- DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN protecting the environment, two goals often vived by his wife of 31 years, Signa Judith OPERATIONS, AND RELATED hard to reach.’’ Born in San Francisco in Irwin Houghteling, and his daughters with PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS 1924, son of the late William and Virginia the late Frances Fisher Houghteling: Anne ACT, 2010 LeSeure Houghteling, Houghteling attended Frances Houghteling and her husband, Herb Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He then Greenman, of Palo Alto; Elizabeth Cannon SPEECH OF joined the Navy V–12 college officer-training Houghteling and her husband, Philip program and attended Bates College and the Balboni, of Cambridge, Mass.; and Mary Wal- HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH College of the Holy Cross. He served aboard lace Houghteling of Berkeley. He is survived OF OHIO the USS Ocklawaha in 1945–46 with the forces by his grandson, Philip Cannon Houghteling IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES occupying Japan. He graduated from Yale in Balboni, of Cambridge. He leaves three 1947. After college, Houghteling moved to the nieces and a nephew by his sister, Lucretia Thursday, July 9, 2009 Peninsula, where he was publisher of com- H. Robertson, who predeceased him.’’ The House in Committee of the Whole munity newspapers including The Gilroy f House on the State of the Union had under Dispatch, The Los Gatos Times-Observer, consideration the bill (H.R. 3081) making ap- The Sunnyvale Standard, The Pleasanton EXPRESSING THE GRATITUDE OF propriations for the Department of State, Times and The Mountain View Register- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- foreign operations, and related programs for Leader. He owned The Nevada County Nug- TIVES FOR THE SERVICE OF M. the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and get for a time. He also founded Diablo Press, POPE BARROW, JR. for other puropses: which published books on controversial top- Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Chair, we must take ics including abortion and ‘‘We Accuse,’’ a SPEECH OF measurable actions to replace policies of ag- collection of essays on the new American po- litical anger during the Vietnam War, as HON. ROBERT A. BRADY gression with policies of dialogue, adherence well as ‘‘The Sinking of the Lollipop’’ by OF PENNSYLVANIA to international law and an unwavering dedica- Rodney G. Minott, about the congressional IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tion to the protection of human rights. As campaign of Pete McCloskey and Shirley such, I oppose the bill based on the inclusion Monday, July 13, 2009 Temple Black. Although he came from a of funding for programs and support for poli- family of Illinois Republicans, including Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Madam cies that fail to meet these important goals. great-grand-father ‘‘Uncle Joe’’ Cannon, Re- Speaker, there are many people who work This bill continues funding for the Inter- publican Speaker of the U.S. House of Rep- very hard behind the scenes to enable the national Military Education and Training resentatives, Houghteling became a com- House to fulfill its legislative responsibilities, (IMET) program. IMET is one of the three mitted Democrat. He was a California dele- and Pope Barrow is unsurpassed in his craft. gate to the Democratic Conventions of 1956, funding sources that support the Western supporting Adlai Stevenson, and of 1960, sup- As ‘‘the’’ House Legislative Counsel for the Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation porting John F. Kennedy. He was Northern past dozen years, and as ‘‘a’’ legislative coun- (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of California treasurer to the 1960 Kennedy sel for 28 years before that, Barrow has the Americas (SOA). presidential campaign. He participated in helped me and every Member to prepare and This combat-training facility for security per- many other campaigns, including those of perfect our legislation, that is, the actual words sonnel in Latin America is notorious for grad- both Pat and Jerry Brown, John Tunney, on the papers that Congress enacts into the uating human rights offenders. In its 59 years Dianne Feinstein and Pete McCloskey. law of the land. He is a gruff yet genial fellow of existence, the SOA trained over 60,000 Houghteling served on the boards of many who takes great pride in his work, and rightly Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency nonprofits including California Tomorrow, the Planning and Conservation League Foun- so. He has much to be proud of over the techniques, sniper training, commando and dation, the Coro Foundation, Stanford Hos- course of his career, as many of my col- psychological warfare, military intelligence and pital, Peninsula School and the California leagues have already described. interrogation tactics. These graduates have Newspaper Publishers Association. I frankly don’t know about Barrow’s other consistently targeted educators, union orga- Houghteling joked that he was ‘‘one of Pat genres, but as Legislative Counsel his profes- nizers, religious workers, student leaders, and ∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 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