"I have the high privilege of serving each of you in the U.S. House of Representatives.  There is no better job anyone can have . . . because you get a chance to speak for your neighbors and your friends on the floor of the House of Representatives and the committees of the House about things that your people care about . . . and want the nation to know about their feelings on issues and their culture and their priorities.  And, so I get to represent you, and that is an extremely high honor.  I want to thank you for what you have done to let me do that over all these years.  Thank you so much for honoring me the way you have, and sending me to Congress."

William J. Jefferson, M.C.

 

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