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program was terminated in 1986 and it is time 

that VA once again became a leader in promoting veteran-owned businesses. 

It is not right that some set-aside programs 

get a competitive advantage over veteranowned businesses, so my bill also includes 

provisions to have veteran-owned small business evaluated and awarded contracts under 

the same rules as 8(a) businesses. 

If this bill is enacted it will be a win-win for 

all Americans, as it will provide a valuable 

boost to our veterans who want to start a business, while stimulating the economy at the 

same time. I urge my colleagues to co-sponsor and support this measure. 

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PORT JEFFERSON VOLUNTEER 

AMBULANCE CORPS’ 50TH ANNIVERSARY 

HON. TIMOTHY H. BISHOP OF NEW YORK

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. BISHOP of New York. Madam Speaker, 

I rise today to join the Port Jefferson Volunteer 

Ambulance Corps in celebrating 50 years of 

dedicated service to our community. An historical shipbuilding town renamed in honor of our 

third President, Port Jefferson is now a thriving village of nearly 8,000 residents, growing 

in the summer with the arrival of tourists from 

Connecticut on the Cross-Sound ferry. 

In the fifty years of its existence, the Port 

Jefferson Volunteer Ambulance Corps has expanded to meet the growing needs of the 

wider community, including the villages of 

Belle Terre and Mt. Sinai. Starting with a single ambulance, the Corps now operates three 

ambulances and a first-responder car, with 

120 volunteers ready to answer the call 24 

hours a day. 

Madam Speaker, ambulance volunteers embody the best aspects of the American spirit 

and play a vital role in keeping our communities safe and healthy. I am proud to represent the membership of the Port Jefferson 

Volunteer Ambulance Corps and to join them 

in marking fifty years of service to their neighbors. I wish them the best as they continue 

their important, frequently life-saving mission. 

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THE TURNABOUT RANCH IN 

GARFIELD COUNTY, UTAH 

HON. JIM MATHESON OF UTAH

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. MATHESON. Madam Speaker, I rise 

today to introduce legislation that would correct a drafting error that involves a 25-acre 

parcel of Bureau of Land Management, BLM, 

land, and land that is part of the Turn-About 

Ranch, which rehabilitates troubled youth. 

An erroneous survey in January 1999 was 

the cause of this trespass conflict when Congress approved a major land exchange, P.L. 

105–335, between the State of Utah and the 

border of the Grand Staircase Escalante, 

GSE, Monument. This legislation makes a 

minor boundary change to resolve the trespass conflict. It would grant the owners of the 

ranch to purchase the erroneously surveyed 

land at a fair market value, enabling this important and effective program for troublesome 

youth to continue unimpeded. 

The Turn-About Ranch has graduated approximately 500 troubled and at risk teenagers 

through an intense program of training and rehabilitation. The ranch also employs about 35 

Garfield County residents. The Turnabout 

Ranch has strong support from the local community, and the Garfield County Commission, 

as well as approval from the parents of the 

troubled youth. 

The Government-owned land administered 

by the BLM surrounds the congressional action by passing this legislation in Congress. 

The land was historically used for agriculture 

and grazing purposes. The Townsend family 

purchased the ranch and then leased the land 

to the Turn-About Ranch, Inc., for the sole 

purpose of rehabilitating the troubled youth, 

and restoring the values and self-esteem to 

these wayward teens. 

Madam Speaker, this legislation is a fair 

resolution to a technical problem. I hope Congress can implement this legislation and resolve this problem to continue helping our 

troubled adolescent teens. 

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SITUATION IN GAZA 

HON. LEONARD L. BOSWELL OF IOWA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. BOSWELL. Madam Speaker, I strongly 

support Israel’s right to defend itself against 

the rocket attacks by Hamas—attacks which 

have killed and injured many Israeli citizens. 

Israel’s actions are understandable. We must 

stand by our ally and be involved in any negotiations. I’m heartened to learn of a possible 

cease fire proposal. However, any cease fire 

must ensure an end to the terrorist attacks by 

Hamas. 

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ADDRESSING THE SITUATION IN 

GAZA 

HON. JERRY McNERNEY OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. MCNERNEY. Madam Speaker, I take 

this opportunity to express my concern about 

events in Israel and Gaza, and my support for 

Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket attacks launched from the Hamas-controlled 

Gaza Strip. The region must have a meaningful resolution that will permanently end these 

rocket attacks and open a pathway to alleviate 

civilian suffering and develop a secure and 

prosperous Palestinian society. Hamas’ rocket 

attacks targeting civilians triggered the current 

crisis. Any country is compelled to defend its 

civilians against attack. 

The situation in the region has reached a 

new level of violence, and each civilian death 

is tragic. The images of suffering innocents, 

especially children, in both the Gaza Strip and 

Israel are a stark reminder that it is long past 

time for this region to know peace. The United 

States must be deeply involved in the peace 

process while vigorously working for short and 

long term solutions that will provide security to 

Israel and the means for a better future to Palestinians. 

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HONORING MADELINE DELOACH 

FRANKLIN 

HON. BARBARA LEE OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Ms. LEE of California. Madam Speaker, I 

rise today to honor the extraordinary life of 

Mrs. Madeline DeLoach Franklin. A loving 

mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, 

friend, and compassionate soul, Madeline will 

be dearly missed by all who knew her. Madeline passed away on December 21, 2008, at 

the age of 94, less than 1 month short of her 

95th birthday. 

Born on January 17, 1914, Madeline had a 

long and fascinating life. She not only witnessed the most transformative periods in our 

Nation’s history, she actively participated in 

them. Madeline Franklin was a vanguard of 

the pre-civil rights era and an inspiring political 

mother to many activists from the civil rights 

movement up until the present. 

Madeline was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her parents, William and Dora C. 

DeLoach, moved the family from New Orleans 

to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during World 

War I. In Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. DeLoach 

founded St. Philip’s Lutheran Church and 

raised their children in the spirit of community 

service. Growing up during the first decades of 

the 20th century, Madeline shared a simple 

and happy childhood with her nine older siblings. It was during this time that Madeline developed her strong social values, faith in God, 

and belief in the necessity of justice and 

human dignity for all people. She would carry 

these values with her and teach them to those 

fortunate enough to know her for over 70 

years. 

After graduating from the prestigious Philadelphia Girls High School, Madeline returned 

to New Orleans to attend Dillard University, 

where she pledged as a member of the Delta 

Sigma Theta Sorority. She graduated in 1939, 

and by that time had already fulfilled one of 

her dreams by becoming an accomplished pianist. Madeline was living in Pass Christian, 

Mississippi, and it was during this period that 

she decided to formally pursue a career in 

education and become politically active in the 

most important efforts of her time—actions 

that would serve as the precursors to the civil 

rights movement in America. Even before 

Rosa Parks’ famous refusal to give up her bus 

seat to make room for White passengers in 

1955, Madeline DeLoach was refusing to sit 

on wheel covers or wait for the next bus to 

come in the 1930s in Jackson, Mississippi. 

During that same period she met her future 

husband, Dr. Charles L. Franklin, who was living in New York after graduating from Columbia University in 1936 at the age of 25. At that 

time, Dr. Franklin was one of the youngest 

PhDs in the country, and the only AfricanAmerican with a doctorate degree in his field. 

A specialist in social legislation, labor economics, and statistics, Dr. Franklin was an energetic intellectual at the forefront in the struggle 

for employment integration in the Federal government. On his own merit he received the 

highest average of all of the competitors in the 


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