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House Journal: Page 1020: Tuesday, March 28, 1995

President Boswell presented Senator Tony Bisignano of Polk,
President pro tempore of the Senate, who welcomed the Pioneer
Lawmakers on behalf of the Senate.
President Boswell presented Representative Harold Van Maanen of
Marion, Speaker pro tempore of the House, who welcomed the
Pioneer Lawmakers on behalf of the House of Representatives.
President Boswell presented the Honorable Minnette Doderer who
responded to the welcome.
The Honorable Minnette Doderer announced the 1975 class of
legislators who were eligible to become members of the Pioneer
Lawmakers. 
Honorary members of the 1975 class were Lobbyists: Charles
Wasker and Richard Bergland.
The Honorable Minnette Doderer presented Michael G. Gartner,
Editor and Co-owner of the Ames Daily Tribune, Ames, who
addressed the joint convention as follows:
Mr. Speaker, Representative Doderer and Pioneer Lawmakers and
not-so-pioneer lawmakers.
I'm flattered to be here with you today, and I know I was not
your first choice as speaker.  Representative Doderer told me
that first she asked President Clinton, and I know that his
inability to come is disappointing to many of you.
However, I shall try to do my best to fill in.  I shall waffle
on several issues, change my mind on some, and promise you
whatever you want.  And, after I'm through, my wife will talk to
you about health care -- and commodity futures.
And I'll try to stay within his usual time frame for a speech --
about an hour and a half.
I should tell you that on Sunday I'm the commencement speaker at
Waldorf College in Forest City, where I'm a last-minute fill-in
for Bob Dole.  I'm an equal-opportunity pinch-hitter.  Up there,
of course, I'll take the opposite position of everything I say
here today.  And I'll bring my NRA posters.
Actually, I'd like to talk with you here today about something
that I'm interested in every day of every year and that
President Clinton and Senator Dole are interested in for a few
weeks ever four years -- Iowa.
I love Iowa.
I was born here and raised here, and while I go off periodically
to do this or that, I keep returning.  For five years recently,
I commuted from here to New York every week simply because I
love Iowa, I wanted to keep in touch here, and I didn't want to
raise my family in New York.
A person is lucky if he finds a place that he loves, just as
he's lucky if he finds a person he loves.  And when you find
that place, just as when you find that person, you should never
let go.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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