Monthly Archives: December 2010

Wednesday December 22nd 2010 @2:48pm ( bully calls for today… buthave a clue)

 For today… I  spoke with my mother ( or at least it was supposed to be my mother at around 12noon .. she was in her car and had a job prospect for me …. ) / she was supposed to call me back in an hour with the information but i never heard back from her… i tried calling  her back….and left a message on 239-598-1515… and on her cell phone number 239-821-5515…  well…. it was a little strange that this woman who had made sure to tell me  not be late for christmas brunch…. was telling me she was giving me a job to keep me out of her hair…( honestly never heard such  language from my  mom..) to make a long story a bit longer( ha…)
 
I  got a phone  call back at 2:05: 26pm from ( no caller id….) if it had been from my mothers real home phone number it would have registered as her number or it would have registered as  marion gregory…  which I have listed in my contacts…. but no no caller id at all.. so that this the first clue that it is not a valid number and not a  valid person calling.. then the person on the phone actually was asking me if i had been in her house while she was away…  I answered of course not.. I had left many messages wondering where she was…

this person now was telling me that she now has a camera  at her house.. and that it shows I was there…

me being at my mother’s house is no big deal… I had been speaking with  her about all she had to do with the business…. (cards and candy to all the hotels)… and when I hadn’t heard from her in a while I may have gone over there but I was really only out of my house twice… to go to church… to get names from the Ritz and the Wateriside shops… and grocery shopping and to the bank which I think I tried to get everything done in a few trips….all in one or two days…did a few of those things all in one day….  

  then this  same person goes on to say  that  some of her Nepal  ivory figures may be missing…  totally freaky…. since she was accusing me of stealing from my mother… ridiculous….

It is as if someone redirects my phone calls. and i get a successful mom or a not so successful mom depending on where or whomever I  get to speak with… in fact last night i actually had a girl threaten that i will not get to babysit a family i have known for years if i don’t   ” keep my mouth shut and just  do my job”….. and when they ask how everything  is going I should just say fine…. and do not tell them that these criminals are messing with every part of my life…  or that so far not seeing my family… getting yelled out and accused of stealing… of being  lonely pretty much makes  this  the worst Christmas ever list….

So  I wonder if this is  how the little girls and boys of the criminal   element have been stealing from  not only my mother but from me as well…. calling up me and accusing me of stealing….. like when they had  ( the renters she had… actually Jonathan from the blue martini and his girlfriend… were living in the end apartment… and were the ones who took the table and chairs that my mom had had from  the beach front condo….  that were being used in one of her rentals…  I actually found this out by accident .. another time i think i was going to the church do say my novena… so it was pretty late at night… i went by and say the table and chairs… outside????

Another odd occurrence…  I received  two phone calls today from  the art Instute  of  Fort lauderdale…. concerning  my inquiry to attend… 

I had wanted to attend interior design school and had looked into it around 1998…. after i graduated from college in 1992….   and again after  i had worked and  had saved the tuition to pay for the two additional years ( since i already have a bachelor degree from  the university of florida)…..
but as far as recently i had not put in an application…..????

I told them that no i did not  put in a recent application…..I mean a full application to attend…. and to be sure to put a note on my file  because I have been dealing with  too many examples of identity theft.. fraud… ( ie the magazines that  i never ordered… ) the most recent one was cosmopolitan  I haven’t read that   since i was 17 …..maybe in my college years i got Harpers  Bazaar…

 presently I enjoy  business magazines.. and if someone really knew me they would have gotten me a subscription to the wall street journal.. or smart money.. or even the Harvard business review…that would have been great!   but Cosmo or Essence magazines… just not me….

 Also just found out out that the camera i had purchased  a bit ago… and had been working great … actually I hardly ever used it… unless I was taking pictures of the sunsets…at the beach… or for holidays…  is now broken… guess because no  one wanted  me to be able to take  pictures for Christmas?????.. or maybe  they needed to steal the camera that would work since theirs is broken….( that happened or the chords from various cameras I have had were stolen ….. a few times actually… lots of items were stolen or borrowed or whatever you want to call it…and then i would have to go out and buy or fix something …. when i never broke it in the first place!!! 

So I did my due diligence… when ever I tell anyone that something was broken or stolen or changed… most fo the time these people always want to tell me isn’t   so… or that it happened somewhere else and blame it on someone else … so the only places i had been… the Ritz.. and the waterside shops…

 I  called the Ritz.. and the guys there said  they hadn’t seen anyone in my car… so i called the security at Saks … spoke with Renee…. and he said they would check the security cameras for the woman who was lurking by the silver Lexus parked right by me… who had the white poodle like dog…  she was rolling a little traveling case i had assumed was for her dog… she was in her mid to late 50-60’s had short gray  /white hair in a perm.. was aprox. 5 foot three inches… and was wearing a red with multicolored sweater over a white shirt or turtleneck… she  had on  black pants and  low heels or flats… the carrying   case was a rolling case that was red and black…

so here’s hoping they can see if she or someone  got into my car… she was walking around the Lexus and when i asked if she needed any help.. she said she lost her keys… i told her i could go and get security….   but she said no she probably had it in her purse and would look again… so i walked into the store… and when i came back ou
t after delivering cards… the Lexus was still there… and no woman.. but the strangest thing… my car window started rattling all the way home.. and tonight when i went to go in and use my camera that i had actually used probably about a week ago… it was not  broken( a week ago )  but when i went to use it it made a really funny  loud sound… like it was shaking or something… then … i changed  batteries thinking that maybe that  was the   problem…. . but no…… it was not…   i probably should  check the serial number …  when i told the security guard he said to make sure to make a report to the police… so i will!  ( i actually did call and have the police come to my home… so i could  fill out a report… blog about that another page…)

I guess I  am not supposed to go to the Ritz this  year…for Christmas… didn’t get to go for thanks giving… i even thought I i might be all alone this year… just like i was almost  all alone at thanksgiving…. 

these little criminal girls. or whomever was on the phone.. and feel like they are picking or choosing my life…. when they are mean and manipulative and selfish… they are horrible…………

one actually sounded a lot like Christoper’s old girlfriend. or some young and very mean and jealous girls… ( who i  was told was  drunk… one night she even called me up and tried asking me to date him…..   Christopher is this handy man who worked for me a few times  when  things broke… )      Anyway……

 He even said that I was calling him all the time and to stop calling all the time when i know i hadn’t been calling him…. ( christoper that is )…UGG….. Ii actually spoke with  his boss Ron Arthur concerning the phone  calls he had said i had made… i am thinking now that maybe the caller id can be traced to see who was making the calls…….. maybe even catch them in the intellius phone report… and be able to prosecute if calls were made harassing Chris… and ruining my reputation… again…. and if someone was mimiking me or using sound bites or something ( don’t exactly know how that might work… but that phone card that the congressmen were speaking about… anyway… maybe  put them in jail for identity theft… 

…. if the mean girls on my phone  are in any way related to this Chis’s girlfriend…. or ex girlfriend….ugg…  no wonder my phone  is soooooo messed up…..  i know i had asked his help and  he was the one who actually tried to  help me when my phone was having issues… ages ago….
 way too messed up … and ruining my Christmas…. UCK>>>>>>>

So today my mom and i were going  to go look into any type of machine or something out there that deals with the cards the congressman were speaking of… the ones that can change a mans’ voice to sound like a  woman… i wonder how close of a match they can actually get to someone  you actually know…. their voice that is.. because i swear most of these people   .. the things they say… .. their  jargon… their manners…… nothing  like my mom….guess I will have to start looking on line to try to   find a way to catch these criminals….  what a waste of time… when i could be so much more productive if i had never met a criminal ever……. again!!!!!!!!! 

Friday december 24th 2010 @2:06pm ( joel osteen account … unscribe noticed on my email … but i didn’t do it!)

So this morning I was checking on my emails… and….. I received this notice that  I had unsubscribe   from getting posts  from Joel Olsteen ministries… which of course was a shock to me… especially since I had just called and talked with  a representative about an order of the “GRACE” series that I gave a donation  to order in early November… the woman I spoke with was really rude( very uncharacteristic of any of the  representatives from  Joel Olsteen ministry…and come to think of it she told me that the only way I could actually get the CD’s I ordered was to have her cancel it( the order of Grace)  and have it go through her account????? now that does not  sound right at all..

 Monday December 20th 2010 @ 1:04:18pm I received the email about canceling my posts.. now all I have to do is figure where the posts were canceled from….?????? and maybe who did this?????

my exact order was ordered November 16th 2010. @ exactly 5:56:38pm
the confirmation code was given to me adn it was supposed to be shipped out with in a few days…
the address in my account is correct….. what happened??
 
 

Wednesday December 22nd 2010 @12:49pm (the facial gift from gerard… adn a merle norman facial ….. be warry of some “gifts” )

.So you would think that  a gift is a nice thing… right? and it should be… something thoughtful.. meant to brighten your day...at least that is what i tried  to do… especially to/ or for the people you love…  but i think you  should be wary of some gifts… especially when you need to know the motivation behind them…  take for example the facial i was given  as a gift… the one in Marco island… the one where Gerards girls questioned me …. then I had to take off my diamond ear rings.. and my diamond cross…. boy was I sooo naive and stupid …. and trusting… damn i was too trusting… well too trusting to be around a bunch of scummy con artists …..anyway…. big mistake.. also  the gift he was going to give me… of having my car detailed… and instead went into my home..with all my keys still attached to my key ring…..  

so here is another very bizarre incidence… and hopefully someone can figure out why it happened.. i was given a facial for a merle norman facial in Fort Myers at the bell tower… ( it of course is not in business anymore… .)  and the thing about facials… you normally  close your eyes when you are having them done… you purse is not on you… and usually you take off your jewelry… right?  even with a locker which if i remember correctly both these places didn’t have a locker or at least they didn’t offer me one to use…. i keep trying to think back to all that has happened and how it could have possibly taken place.. and how to prevent it from ever happening to me or anyone else again….. 

so in trying to figure out if these were two places where crimes were committed?by closing my eyes and leaving my purse and jewelry alone and in the room while i was getting the “facial” were my credit cards compromised then?……..

but i  have another bizarre twist… i was given a facial that was nothing  like a facial i had ever had…… ever….. and i have had some really great facials… of course i highly recommend the ritz carlton spa in Naples….)  first they put this guaze on my face then painted this plaster paris like substance on my face….and i just  sat there…  well i did put my hands in the gloves to have a paraffin treatment…..  does anyone know if you can get a persons fingerprint impression off of the parifin treatment? because at that time i needed to use my hand print…. fingerprints actually  to get into my safe deposit box … at the bank….  because i know that items were missing form my safe deposit box at one point in time… of course anyone i spoke to told me the items would “show up eventually”…… and i stupidly listened and didn’t file any police reports… at  that time… 

o.k. back to the facial I called Meryl Norman corporate when i found out that the bell tower store was closed..to ask about he facials… they said that each store even though  a franchise was independently operated and they may have made modifications from the original facials but having gauze then layer painted on and left to dry to an almost mask like consistency…. that most of the people i spoke with had never heard of such a procedure…. … one woman told me about this four layer facial where layers of products are  put on and allowed to dry .. but i went on line to see it… the u tube video of it… and they don’t put on gauze first ..( and not medical gauze).. the gauze that  was placed on my face was different… .

I did more google searches for masks… for making masks and low and behold you can actually make a plaster paris  form for a mask and then make an actual mask from this other substance that you can paint to  look like skin…. in the video they were making masks for movies.. and for Halloween… i wonder how actual life like you could get one of those masks???and then for what purpose??????

I guess 3 business… some money from  refinancing… a car or two… cleaning out bank accounts.. stealing an identity… would that be worth all of that trouble? would it be close enough to me… to a real life person that any relative or friend wouldn’t be able to tell?

Guess if they hasn’t really seen me in 7 years….

 then i remembered… what Gerard had said( to scare me i guess)  about my privacy.. basically that i wouldn’t have any… and that i should look closely at people’s feet and hands…. he said  something about  those usually don’t change… and honestly i rarely noticed feet or hands i mean really noticed to see…. … for example if they were my mother’s hands.. or not. …. or my mothers teeth … or her face was wrinkled or not… or if her height seemed taller or shorter….

also remember way back when i first met him… pictures… lots of facial pictures were taken…

the freak( gerard)  also asked me a lot of questions  about my family and my dad… about  whether i would  be great to him.. take care of him…  gosh I hope he and his criminal group of scum haven’ t really ruined my entire family life he had threatened to do……

another time 
when i went to a doctor for a chest x-ray…. the doctor thought i had had breast implants… then not had them out then had them in ……… weird conversation… since i have never had breast implants ever…..but we can discuss what i believe to be some serious medical scams that they used me for…. or my identity… or whatever… UGG

like i said worst experiences of my life occurred since meeting that idiot…

Wednesday December 22nd @12:11pm( wrong email addresses from facebook)

So this is puzzling…. I wrote to my friends on Face book December 16th 2010…. to get addresses both email or actual physical addresses to so i can send out x-mas cards…. or x-mas emails.. I was thrilled to get replies…. but when i went to send them… ( I created a great x-mas card and newsletter to send via email…. ) but 13 out of 48 address came back undeliverable… and the reason was that they were all not legitimate email addresses…. how can that be?????…. of course i go immediately to thinking…… how did someone interfere with my face book account??????….  did someone hack in and change  a letter or address… or  are these people  i have been sharing my life….. my thoughts my trials and tribulations.. my hopes and dreams… not my legitimate friends?…  anyone have an answer??????and if they haven’t been my real genuine friends…  wht is their motivation….. and do they know about Lori Drew and the case of the Cyber bulling????? that impersonating another person though a computer generated account…when she did it to commit harm…. actually that is what she was prosecuted for…. i believe she should have also been culpable  of murder…. but someday… maybe just someday justice will prevail….right?

Wednesday December 22nd 2010@12:26pm( additional items stolen i forgot to mention)

So when going through some other  items… i realized many other items stolen and not yet returned… like i had 3 back  briefcases …. actually one was an official briefcase.. the other two where more for traveling with shoes..and one has been missing for years…..then of course items like  sunglasses…. Scott’s daughter threw one pair my “maui jims”  into  gulf… so that pair i know what happened… but a couple great and really nice pairs….. ” disappeared”…. I know i didn’t lose them… or misplace them… they were either on top of my head… or around my neck……

Also another weird thing… i once went to an eye doctor… and he told me i had this stigma tissue…... so i went out and got a really cool great pair of glasses… with the prescription… he told me i needed… then i started to get these terrible headaches…and they went away when i stopped wearing  my glasses… and my eyesight was fine… of course i was only in my 20’s then..

so…. all these lies…. and deceptions… and crimes… and cons… and cheating people out of everything… is this group of con-artists… so ingrained in one group…. in one  town that …. what??? one slimy con artist or criminal  practically owns a town????? or like that Murphy’s town…. (that was in that article) there was actually a town of con artists… but i cant believe that this place is like that… or has always been like that… i think that  if you meet the wrong people.. and they manipulate your ways of communicating with anyone who is not one of “them”… then you are stuck with all the scum… instead of meeting or having  a great life where hopes and dreams do come true.. without anyone being hurt.. without anyone lying to you or cheating you or harming you… to get what hey want… UGG

  what if for the last 7 years that idiot had just manipulated every person i have met or talked to…. what the hell would or could ever be the purpose?… what kind of a psycho freak or group of frauds and freaks… are here?????? 

Tuesday December 21st 2010 @10:09pm( intellius again to prove phone fraud)

So,  I mentioned beforthat I was speaking with Virgin Mobil representative about the phone problems… the continuous calls from a bogus caller id.. the— 112392872294……Intellius…couldn’t do a check because the amount of numbers on the caller id for this  bogus number were wrong….. so when I was discussing the problem with someone who was supposed to be from the service department of virgin Mobil..
I was told by the representative…can’t remember if he said if he was  from the Philippines..or from Nicaragua…...
but he told me to call..( 908-607-4119)…..  so i did an Intellius call check on the number and these are the results: 

Telephone number:   908-607-4119
caller id name:  Mobil virgin
phone type:  land line
carrier:  Verizon New Jersey Inc.
County:   Morris

This is what is so puzzling…. that the corporate office is located in New
Jersy… and uses Verizon Service for their phone carrier??????????
not only that..but even more puzzling…. the corporate office of Virgin Mobil doesn’t have a phone caller id that actually says Virgin Mobil...it says it backwards… Mobil Virgin...

I honestly  wouldn’t think that a corporate office would  not do something like that… would you? So in conclusion… I think that the number I was given was wrong… and was not to a corporate office but to another criminal…. who would then tell me that no noting was wrong with my phone.. or would try to gleen more information from me… so more criminal activity could continue…..

oh what a tangled web they do conceive….when they practice to deceive…( i know i took a little liberty changing the words… but deception and lying and cheating and stealing… manipulating for their own benefit… absolutely criminal…  I hate criminals…)Hurry up congressmen….. lets get these and all criminals who manipulate and harm and promote fraud…over the phone..lets put them in JAIL!

Tuesday december 21st 2010 @ 7:45pm( intellius … totally love them!)

So very excited about speaking with a wonderful representative from Intellis this evening..Her name is Dana and she was wonderful…she was able to allow me to print reports form lat year and from this year!!! I can’t wait to take all this new information to to the police… especially since all the information I had stored in a paper file and now locked up….mysteriously disappeared… its always amazing to me when I have a file folder labeled with the information that should be inside written on the outside… labeled and ready to input into a data file on my computer….or send in an email…to the police..or even after I have written about it in this blog.. somehow .. a few of the papers/from folders have disappeared …  you can actually  still see the staples marks.. as if they had been torn out of the file… no hiding the fact that there had been something in the file…at one point in time… now it is gone… stolen .. i guess the little stinky criminals think that if they steal the proof that they were stealing.. then they can continue to steal?  or what? that if there is no information … that they can try to say I imagined it?… or that … it didn’t happen… that has been the most frustrating… when someone is telling you something you know to be true… and to make sure they don’t get caught for committing a crime they try to tell you that it just didn’t happen….  it must be just  as frustrating as trying to prove a rape without DNA evidence…. right?   It is my word against a person who makes their  living from  stealing and lying  and cheating people out of a great and wonderful life… but wait .. I am getting off track…. the point i was or am trying to make……

I mentioned telephone problems and telephone problems when it came to theft o babysitting jobs…. anyway…. last year right about this time of year in fact my mom called me to tell me of a babysitting job… it was for a few nights and i think it was to be between $400-$1000.00 for the entire time of the sitting…. my mom had spoken to the people and it was scheduled  and she discussed the prices and the client had discussed what would be expected of the sitter and what would be expected as far as payment… parking… and all the specific details for the sitter… a done deal….

anyway, after the job was set i had put it in my date book and I received a phone call from a cell phone.. she claimed to be Sarah Humphry and was calling to cancel the job.  I was very suspicious and did an Intellius check o the cell number.

This is the information for the cell number:
 The cell number is (617-877-7978) 
registered to a J Gibbons                                  12 Newcastle Rd. B
age 48                                                                   Brighton Ma 02135
relatives:
Geri Gibbons
John Gibbons
JC Gibbons 

Because of the loss of this job I could only get my family and  friends  the little guardian angel boxes for Christmas last year( i mentioned them in www.mygingerbreadman.com)… I had hoped to be able to get my niece something really great!

At least I gave my sister a ring she had me keep for her for safe keeping…( it is beautiful… this sapphire ring with diamonds all around it… it actually looks like the ring that Prince William gave to Kate Middleton…honest it really does!….I took it right off my hand and gave it to her for Christmas…. ( don’t know why she said “Score”… but I think she liked having it back…and since I didn’t  have the extra money….I had hoped for because of girls stealing jobs..so this time it was absolute proof though the cell phone records that foul play was at hand…

I also wanted to mention another job that was by a woman Karen Hale also form bay colony… when my mother had eh job set up the woman said i had babysat for her the year before and wanted a new sitter… i checked my records and that job was canceled…I never ever sat for this woman… so perhaps someone else went in my place…ie stole a job. the woman was dissatisfied and there they go again… ruining a reputation…. when i did nothing wrong… and  actually did nothing..never even met the woman… unless Karen Hale is Karen Kahel…. the bully but then that is another infraction of the law althogether….

Friday December 17th 2010 @ 8:14pm( answer when asked how the phone situation damaged my life, hopes dreams and business)

 When asked how the phone situation has affected my life… I started to think of all the many ways  that my life was affected… I used to say these were or are the worst years of my life.. want  to amend that statement and say that there have been some of the worst experiences of my life have occurred.  

So I thought it might be more descriptive in telling what my life goals were… and what I was not allowed to achieve or accomplish during these years where people where allowed to lie to me, to steal from me, to manipulate my life, to use me,  and to selfishly be able to  harm my life.  

Friday December 17th 2010@8:03pm ( emails sent to congessman stearns, engel, murphy,boucher,barton,

Dear:
 (Nicholas and Congressman Timothy Murphy,Engel,Stearns,Boucher,Barton)                     December 17th 2010 @ 7:11pm
My
name is Mary Jean Ziska and I live in Naples Floria.  I am writing to
you today after viewing the House Session of December 15th 2010 during
which you were discussing the Truth in Caller ID Act. 

I started
watching the C-span program when congressman Stearns was discussing the
truth in caller id act.  My sister interned with Congressman Stearns in
Washington many years ago.  Primarily my interest was with the Truth in
caller Id act which makes it illegal to cause fraud /harm when
falsifying a caller Id and changing a person’s voice over the phone. 
I
am in the process of trying to rectify the damage that has occurred in
my life due to many criminals and criminal instances since 2003.  I
would like to prosecute these criminals for ruining my business, my
reputation, many relationships, for the bulling and harassment and for
damaging 7 years of my life! 


(  only put in the email to congressman murphy  (I am also interested in
finding out your progress and more information on The Truth in caller Id
Act, and on the original bill you introduced in 2006 ( H.R. 5304 known
as the phone act or preventing harassment through outbound enforcement
act.)

I started a website:  www.mysearchforjustice.com and a blog:
www.blog.mysearchforjustice.com to document all the criminal activity and people involved since 2003. 

If
you could assist me in anyway possible to find ways to catch, stop and
prosecute these criminals I would be most appreciative!  If you need any
other evidence of how damaging and detrimental changing a caller id or a
person’s voice over the phone can be to not only one person but to an
entire family , to their friends, and to a business, I have many
examples and instances you may use!
Thank you for your kind attention in this matter,
Sincerely, Mary Jean Ziska

* this email was sent to :  nicholas.gardner@mail.house.gov
*this email was sent to:  Congressman Barton through his website
*this email was sent to :  Congressman Engel
*this email was sent to :  Congressman Stearns
this email was sent to:  Congressman Boucher  

Fri. December 17th 2010@5:00pm ( house session Truth in caller id act transcript: Mr barton texas )

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House Session

TRUTH IN CALLER ID ACT OF 2009

Dec 15, 2010

Barton, JoeU.S. Representative
[R] Texas

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02:30:57 THANK YOU.
02:30:58 I RISE FOR TWO REASONS.
02:31:01 ONE IS TO SUPPORT THIS BILL.
02:31:02 I TALLLY THOUGHT IT HAD PASSED AND BECOME — I
ACTUALLY THOUGHT IT HAD PASSED AND BECOME LAW BECAUSE WE PASS IT EVERY
CONGRESS AND IT GOES INTO THE OTHER BODY AND FALLS IN THE BLACK
HOLE OVER THERE.
02:31:12 SO IT’S GOOD TO KNOW THAT THEY’RE BRINGING IT BACK.
02:31:15 I’M TOLD THERE ARE TWO WORDS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BILL THAT WE SENT TO THEM AND THE BILL THAT THEY SENT BACK TO US.
02:31:20 SO I GUESS WE CAN ACCEPT TWO WORDS DIFFERENCE.
02:31:23 IT IS LONG OVERDUE.
02:31:25 I WANT TO COMPLIMENT MR. ENGEL FOR HIS HARD WORK AND PERSEVERANCE, MR. STEARNS, MR.
02:31:35 MURPHY, OTHERS ON OTHER SIDE AND BILL.
02:31:36 OF COURSE MR. BOUCHER FOR THIS THE PRIMARY REASON THAT
I AM SPEAKING, THOUGH, IS THAT I WANT TO SAY SOME HEARTFELT WORDS
ABOUT MR. BOUCHER.
02:31:49 SOONER OR LATER THIS CONGRESS IS GOING TO MEASURESFULLY ADJOURN AND I HOPE SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
02:31:56 SO I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY MORE TIMES WE’RE GOING TO BE
ON THE FLOOR BUT I WANTED TO SAY IN HIS PRESENCE WHAT AN HONOR IT HAS
BEEN TO SERVE WITH HIM.
02:32:06 HE IS A WORK HORSE MEMBER, HE IS NOT A SHOW HORSE.
02:32:12 HE DOESN’T GET INVOLVED IN MANY, MANY ISSUES, BUT WHEN
HE DOES GET INVOLVED HE IS METICULOUS IN HIS PREPARATION AND IN HIS
UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUE AND HIS DETAIL, HIS WORD IS GOLD, IT’S
ALWAYS GOOD.
02:32:27 ON THE RARE OCCASIONS THAT I HAVE DISAGREED WITH HIM, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IMPRESSED BY THE MERIT OF HIS ARGUMENT.
02:32:35 AND HE WILL BE MISSED.
02:32:36 HE IS ONE OF THE MEMBERS THAT MAKES THE INSTITUTION
WORK, HE DOES IT BEHIND THE SCENES, HE IS ALWAYS THOUGHTFUL AND
PREPARED AND JUST A JOY TO WORK WITH.
02:32:49 I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH HIM WHEN I WAS
SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND HE WAS MY RANKING MEMBER AND I’VE HAD THE
PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH HIM WHILE HE’S BEEN IN THE MAJORITY AS A
SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND THE WORK THAT HE AND CONGRESSMAN STEARNS
HAVE DONE ON PRIVACY IS WORK THAT WILL BEAR FRUIT IN THE COMING
CONGRESS, I HOPE.
02:33:10 AND THE WORK THAT HE’S DONE ON ENERGY ISSUES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS ISSUES IS TIME.
02:33:18 WORK THAT WILL STAND THE TEST OF SO I DO WANT TO SUPPORT
THE PENDING LEGISLATION, BUT I ALSO WANT TO GIVE THE GENTLEMAN FROM
VIRGINIA MY VERY BEST WISHES AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM IN
WHATEVER ENDEAVORS HE PURSUES IN THE FUTURE.
02:33:34 IT HAS REALLY BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE WITH YOU IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
02:33:38 WITH THAT I YIELD BACK.

Mr. BARTON of Texas. I rise for two reasons. One is to support this
bill. I actually thought it had passed and become law because we pass it
every Congress, and it goes to the other body and falls in the black
hole over there. So it is good to know they are bringing it [Page:
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back. I am told there is a two-word difference between the bill we sent
to them and the bill they sent back to us. I guess we can accept a
two-word difference. It is long overdue. I want
to compliment Mr. Engel for his hard work and perseverance. And Mr.
Stearns, Mr. Murphy, and others on our side, and of course Mr. Boucher
for this bill.

The primary reason I am speaking, though, is I want to say some
heartfelt words about Mr. Boucher. Sooner or later this Congress is
going to mercifully adjourn–and I hope sooner rather than later–and so
I don’t know how many more times we are going to be on the floor, but I
wanted to say in his presence what an honor it has been to serve with
him. He is a workhorse Member; he is not a show horse. He doesn’t get
involved in many, many issues, but when he does get involved, he is
meticulous
in his preparation and understanding of the issue and his detail. His
word is gold. It is always good.

On the rare occasions when I have disagreed with him, I have always
been impressed with the merit of his argument. He will be missed. He is
one of the Members who makes the institution work. He does it behind the
scenes. He is always thoughtful and prepared and just a joy to work
with.

I had the privilege to work with him when I was the subcommittee
chairman and he was my ranking member, and I have had the privilege to
work with him while he has been in the majority as a subcommittee
chairman. The work he and Congressman Stearns have done on privacy is
work that will bear fruit in the coming Congress I hope. The work he has
done on energy issues and telecommunications issues, his work will
stand the test of time.

I do want to support the pending legislation, but I also wanted to
give the gentleman from Virginia my very best wishes. I look forward to
working with him in whatever endeavors he pursues in the future. It has
really been an honor to serve with you in the House of Representatives.