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are needed for homeless veteran families and 

women veterans. The Department of Labor’s 

Veteran Employment and Training Service 

would administer the program within their successful Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program (HVRP). 

The bill also requires that the current biennial reports to Congress include data that 

shows results and outcomes of the services 

provided to the homeless women veterans 

and homeless veterans with dependent children. The bill authorizes appropriations of 

$10,000,000 for each fiscal year for the program. 

If this bill is enacted, it would provide valuable services to this vulnerable population of 

veterans and help stem the tide of chronic 

homelessness. I urge my colleagues to support and co-sponsor the measure. 

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HONORING DAVID ‘‘NICK’’ LYNCH 

HON. STENY H. HOYER OF MARYLAND

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I rise to 

honor the memory of Suitland High School 

head football coach David ‘‘Nick’’ Lynch, who 

was killed in a car accident last week, at the 

age of 43. Nick Lynch was one of the most respected football coaches in Maryland, leading 

the Suitland High team for 12 years and taking 

it to two state championships. 

More than his coaching success, though, 

Coach Lynch was set apart by his devotion to 

his players and outsized role in the Prince 

George’s County community. As Suitland Principal Mark Fossett said, ‘‘He’s had an impact 

on so many people’s lives—not only football 

players, but students in general. It wasn’t like 

Nick was just the head coach of football. This 

is a devastating loss to our community, to our 

family.’’ Many of his current and former players echoed that thought, speaking of Coach 

Lynch’s commitment to shaping the lives of his 

players off the field, inviting them to church 

and meals, and acting as the caring authority 

figure that many of them had lacked. Keith 

Brown, one of Suitland’s players, put it simply 

after Coach Lynch’s memorial service: ‘‘That’s 

my father.’’ 

At a service in which some mourners 

squeezed into stairways or sat in aisles, nearly 

3,000 members of the Prince George’s community gathered to honor Nick Lynch’s impact 

on the lives of so many young men. Though 

Coach Lynch is gone, his influence will no 

doubt endure in all the lives he touched. 

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HONORING LEROY RADANOVICH 

HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. RADANOVICH. Madam Speaker, I rise 

today to honor the accomplishments of Leroy 

Radanovich. Mr. Radanovich was recognized 

by the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors 

on December 9, 2008. 

Leroy Radanovich was born and raised in 

Mariposa County, CA. As a child, Yosemite 

National Park was his playground. He grew up 

learning to appreciate his surroundings and 

his community. Through his love of nature, Mr. 

Radanovich began photographing areas of 

Mariposa and Yosemite Valley. Because of his 

talented eye for beauty today many of his photographs can be found in numerous books and 

museums. Although his photography has 

spread his name around the world, it is his 

community activities that have made him a 

leader in Mariposa. 

Mr. Radanovich is a local business owner. 

Though retired from the pharmacy business, 

he currently operates a photography business. 

He has served his community as a volunteer 

firefighter, past president of the Lions Club, 

and past president of the Mariposa County 

Water Agency. He served as president of the 

Mariposa Chamber of Commerce and assisted 

in establishing multiple tourism and economic 

development programs. From 1985 through 

1988, Mr. Radanovich was elected as the supervisor of District 4 in Mariposa County. During his role as supervisor he served as the 

chairman of the board in 1987 and the president of the San Joaquin Valley Supervisors 

Association in 1988. In 1987 he was instrumental in obtaining the designation of the Kern 

and Merced Rivers as ‘‘National Wild and Scenic River’’ by the Federal Government. From 

1996 until 2003 he was a member of the 

Mariposa Planning Commission and assisted 

in developing the comprehensive update of 

the General Plan. Mr. Radanovich is a member of the Historical Sites and Records Preservation Commission, the Cemetery Advisory 

Committee, and was influential in the restoration of the Mariposa County Courthouse. 

Since 2006, he has served as the director of 

the Yosemite/Mariposa County Tourism Bureau. Mr. Radanovich has been involved with 

nearly every significant project in Mariposa 

County since the 1960s. 

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 

accomplishments of Leroy Radanovich. Although he is going to move away from the 

public role, I am certain that his influences will 

still be noticed. I invite my colleagues to join 

me in honoring his accomplishments and 

wishing him the best in future endeavors. 

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HONORING JAMES ALBON MATTOX 

HON. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON OF TEXAS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas. 

Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize and 

pay tribute to the late James Mattox. 

Jim Mattox was a lifelong Dallasite. A graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, he also 

worked his way through the Baylor School of 

Business and earned a law degree from SMU. 

He served as an assistant district attorney in 

Dallas County before beginning his long political career in 1973 when he took office as a 

State representative from East Dallas. From 

there he was elected to Congress for three 

terms and ended his political service in 1991 

when he stepped down from his post as 

Texas attorney general. 

Jim Mattox will be remembered as a man 

who fought for average, working Texans, and 

who left an unforgettable mark on Texas government in politics. He took on airlines and the 

insurance industry—among many other corporations—on behalf of Texas consumers. He 

was one of the greatest attorney generals in 

the State’s history. 

After his political career Jim Mattox became 

known as the ‘‘People’s Lawyer’’ and built a 

truly modern law practice. He and his staff 

handled more than 2 million cases, won judgments totaling more than $2.5 billion for the 

State, and opened up the diversity of the office by hiring more women and minority lawyers than the top 10 Texas law firms of that 

era combined. 

Madam Speaker, Jim Mattox is survived by 

his wife Marta and their two children, Jim and 

Janet, as well as his sister, Janice, and brother, Jerry, both of Dallas. I ask my colleagues 

to join with me in honoring the memory of Jim 

Mattox. Although he has departed from us in 

body, his memory will live on in each of us. 

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HORSE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY 

ACT OF 2009 

HON. MARK STEVEN KIRK OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. KIRK. Madam Speaker, today Representative STEVE COHEN and I introduced the 

Horse Transportation Safety Act of 2009. 

In Wadsworth, IL, on Saturday, October 27, 

2007, a double decker cattle truck carrying 59 

Belgian draft horses overturned when the driver ran a red light and hit another vehicle. 

Residents at the scene could hear the animals kicking and screaming, panicked by their 

inability to escape. Eight horses died on the 

scene while another ten had to be euthanized. 

After the crash, Wayne Pacelle, president and 

CEO of The Humane Society of the United 

States said, ‘‘What a gory mess we saw 

recently in Illinois. It must never happen 

again . . .’’ 

It is time that we heed these words by putting an end to using double decker trucks to 

transport horses. This legislation, endorsed by 

the Humane Society, Animal Welfare Institute, 

Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society, and the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses would 

take steps toward preventing this disaster from 

occurring again. 

This bill prohibits the interstate transport of 

horses in a motor vehicle containing two or 

more levels stacked on top of one another as 

well as creates civil penalties between $100 

and $500 for each horse involved. 

In my own State of Illinois, the State General Assembly has already moved forward and 

passed similar legislation. I urge my colleagues to become a cosponsor of this bipartisan commonsense legislation. 

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STEVE AND SHARON RUSNAK TO 

RETIRE: 70 YEARS OF COMBINED 

SERVICE 

HON. STENY H. HOYER OF MARYLAND

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 8, 2009 

Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, I take this 

opportunity to acknowledge the support staff 

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