Senate Journal: Page 48: Tuesday, January 12, 1999

  Americans are unique.  We are the only people on this earth who always focus
  on
  the future and expect better things.  Others yearn for the past.  Our
  immigrant
  ancestors taught us that the past is but history and better days are ours
  for the
  making.

  There are better days ahead for Iowa.  They are ours for the making.  We are
  poised
  as never before for an era of growth and opportunity.  We can be a place
  that more and
  more people want to call home.  But it won't happen without change.  A new
  commitment to growth, a renewed commitment to education and a reformed tax
  structure are all within your grasp.  Seize them and make Iowa a better
  place for
  generations to come.

  With that it is time for me to move on.  I've had my time.  I've done what I
  could.  It
  is your turn now.

  Before I go, I'd like to thank my wife and my family.  They know, all too
  well, the
  sacrifices involved in public service.  It is time for me to serve them now.

  We Iowans are a fortunate people.  We have good, clean, honest, open
  government.
  We are still a place where you can respect your government and its leaders.
  It is that
  abiding trust that will allow you, the assembled members of this
  Legislature, to do
  great things.

  I have tried to conduct myself with similar openness and honesty. I have
  truly
  worked to earn your trust.

  When it is all said and done, I hope people will say this about my
  governorship:
  He worked hard;
  He did his best;
  And he prepared us for even better days ahead.

  Fellow Iowans, thank you, and God bless you all.

  Senator Iverson asked and received unanimous consent to take up
  the following resolution:

  SEVENTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION 1

  By:  Senate members Angelo, Bartz, Behn, Black, Boettger, Bolkcom, Connolly,
  Dearden, Deluhery, Drake, Dvorsky, Fink, Flynn, Fraise, Freeman, Gaskill,
  Gronstal,
  Hammond, Hansen, Harper, Hedge, Horn, Iverson, Jensen, Johnson, Kibbie,
  King,
  Kramer, Lamberti, Lundby, Maddox, McCoy, McKean, McKibben, McLaren, Miller,
  Redfern, Redwine, Rehberg, Rife, Rittmer, Schuerer, Sexton, Shearer, Soukup,
  Szymoniak, Tinsman, Veenstra, Zieman; and

  House members Alons, Arnold, Barry, Baudler, Bell, Blodgett, Boal,
  Boddicker,
  Boggess, Bradley, Brauns, Brunkhorst, Bukta, Burnett, Carroll, Cataldo,
  Chapman,
  Chiodo, Cohoon, Connors, Corbett, Cormack, Davis, Dix, Doderer, Dolecheck,
  Dotzler,
  Drake, Drees, Eddie, Falck, Fallon, Foege, Ford, Frevert, Garman, Gipp,
  Greiner,
  Grundberg, Hahn, Hansen, Heaton, Hoffman, Holmes, Holveck, Horbach, Houser,

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