Mr. Speaker. MICKEY LELAND was a man who fought for those whom the world tends to forget: the poor. the starving. and the refugees. My family. staff. and I were shocked and grieved to learn of the untimely demise of MICKEY and his party on August 7 when their plane crashed en route to a refugee camp on the western border of Ethiopia. I can remember meeting MICKEY when he first entered Congress in 1978 and the compassion with which he advocated matters of conscience. I also recall him telling the heartrending story of how. In his first trip to the Sudan in 1984. he watched a starving girl writhe and die before his eyes.
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