Him for about 20 years. He was on this issue in the early 1990s and probably understood it probably even before that. He is that smart. He is that visionary in terms of the issues are essential not just to massachusetts, but to our planet. And it has been migrate honor to have served with you, john and to have called you my friend and colleague overall of these years and we thank you so much for what you have done for us and for the country and thank you. And with that the speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Under the speakers announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from indiana, mr. Burton, is recognized as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. Burton rather than hang the parliamentarian, i yield five minutes to my colleague from massachusetts. Mr. Markey now on barney frank, barney frank is at the same time the smartest member and the witnessiest member of the United States congress wittiest member. He has a Nuclear Power plant for a brain. There is not
This week on q a, Jody Williams, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize discusses her recent autobiography titled, my name is Jody Williams. . Jody williams, what role did a pamphlet play in your life . I was living here in washington, d. C. , it was february of 1981, i was rushing to the metro stop trying to get on the train early and get home to virginia and some scruffy looking individual shoved a pamphlet at me, kind of like you had no choice but to take it and you and i are old enough to remember mimeograph, the ink came off on my hands and i was getting annoyed but i looked at it, and it said, el salvador, another vietnam. My first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. I ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeographed pamphlets into peoples hands trying to educate people. Who handed out those pamphlets . The committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few mon
Pamphlet at me, kind of like you had no choice but to take it and you and i are old enough to remember mimeograph, the ink came off on my hands and i was getting annoyed but i looked at it, and it said, el salvador, another vietnam. My first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. I ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeographed pamphlets into peoples hands trying to educate people. Who handed out those pamphlets . The committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few months, but then i thought since the Reagan Administration was taking a regional approach to south america, i thought their approach should be regional and they disagreed. Where did the money come from . I wasnt paid. But for the organization . I think it was all donations. But im not sure, i was just a volunteer. Who cared about el salvador back then . Reagan, if you remember, was drawing the lin
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