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House Journal: Page 1967: Wednesday, April 22, 1998

After all, there's only one hundred and sixty people out of 2.9
million that want to sit in these chairs next year. And so I
want to congratulate you for being willing to put your name on
the ballot, going through the scrutiny, and you're going to have
things in your personal life that come up for the campaign. You
deserve another pat on the back for that.

It's time for the gavel to fall. One of the roles of the Speaker
is that he is the Administrator of the House. Frankly I don't
spend a lot of time on that. I really delegate all that stuff to
Liz, Alyce, the bill room crew, and everybody over here who
takes care of things - the doormen, the pages, and staff who
make sure everybody's paid. I want to thank you Liz and the full
operation here in the House,  and my staff for keeping me on the
straight and narrow.

Representative Schrader, when Representative Bernau was trying
to think of something to say about me he wanted to make sure
that it would stay out of a brochure. And so I thought what can
I say about Representative Schrader that he won't put in his
brochure? And I thought, what brochure? We can't find anybody to
run against this guy anyway. Dave my thoughts of the minority
are ones that keep the majority on their toes. You kept us on
our toes.

Brent, Representative Siegrist,  the longest serving Republican
majority leader in the history of this state. My friend, we hit
another home run. You're the Mark McGuire of the Iowa House.
Time for you to go home and spend some time with Valerie. Time
to spend some time with Evan.

As for me, I'm going to take that same advice. I'm going to go
home and take a few days off and spend some time with my wife
and four kids. I want to thank you for giving me the great
privilege of standing up here and being Speaker. I wish you all
the best, to those of you retiring and those of you that are
coming back. Have a great summer. God bless you all.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE
The following message was received from the Senate:
Mr. Speaker: I am directed to inform your honorable body that
the Senate has on April 22, 1998, adopted the following
resolution in which the concurrence of the House is asked:
Senate Concurrent Resolution 122, a concurrent resolution to
provide for adjournment sine die.
MARY PAT GUNDERSON, Secretary
ADOPTION OF SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 122
Siegrist of Pottawattamie asked and received unanimous consent
for the immediate consideration of Senate Concurrent Resolution
122, a concurrent resolution to provide for adjournment sine
die, as follows and moved its adoption:

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