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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS,  The  members   of   the   Illinois   House   of
 3    Representatives  wish to express their sincere condolences to
 4    the family and friends of former Illinois  Congressman  Frank
 5    Annunzio, who passed away on April 8, 2001; and

 6        WHEREAS,   Congressman  Frank  Annunzio  was  a  consumer
 7    advocate and  champion  of  working  people  who  represented
 8    Chicago  in  the  United States House of Representatives from
 9    1965 until 1993; and

10        WHEREAS, Congressman Frank Annunzio was born  on  January
11    12,  1915   on  the west side of Chicago; a protege of social
12    reformer  Jane  Addams,  he  grew  up  in  the   Hull   House
13    neighborhood  and  worked as an apprentice in a polishing and
14    planting shop; he graduated from Crane Technical High School,
15    and earned his bachelors and  master's  degrees  from  DePaul
16    University; and

17        WHEREAS,  Congressman  Frank Annunzio served as a history
18    teacher in the Chicago public schools system for  ten  years;
19    in  addition, he was the assistant supervisor of the National
20    Defense Program at Austin High School from 1942 to 1943,  the
21    educational  representative  of  the  United  Steelworkers of
22    America from 1943 until 1948, the chairman of the War  Ration
23    Board  40-20  from  1943  to  1945,  a member of the Advisory
24    Committee to Illinois Industrial  Commission  on  Health  and
25    Safety  from  1944  to  1949,  and  a  member of the Advisory
26    Committee on Unemployment Compensation from 1944 to 1949; and

27        WHEREAS, In 1949, Congressman Frank Annunzio  became  the
28    director  of  labor in Governor Adlai E. Stevenson's cabinet,
29    where he became close  friends  with  the  revenue  director,
30    Richard  J.  Daley,  who  as  Mayor  of Chicago, selected Mr.
31    Annunzio for the United States House  of  Representatives  in
32    1964  to represent a district that included the Loop and much
 
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 1    of the West Side; and

 2        WHEREAS, Congressman Annunzio served in  many  capacities
 3    during  his  tenure  in  Congress; he was the chairman of the
 4    Banking Subcommittee  on  Financial  Institutions,  where  he
 5    fought  for the "average Americans" during a 1990 savings and
 6    loan bailout legislation that proved costly to taxpayers;  in
 7    addition,  he  served as chairman of the House Administration
 8    Committee from 1984 to  1990,  the  Joint  Committee  on  the
 9    Library,  and  as  chairman  of  the subcommittee on Consumer
10    Affairs and Coinage, where he oversaw the minting  of  coins,
11    including  those  honoring  presidents  and  major historical
12    events; and

13        WHEREAS,   Congressman   Annunzio   fought   abuses    by
14    debt-collection   agencies  and  sponsored  legislation  that
15    prohibited discrimination by financial  institutions  on  the
16    basis  of age, gender, and race; as the subcommittee chairman
17    of the House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee  in
18    1989,  he  urged  credit card holders to cut up or burn their
19    cards in an effort to try to force down interest rates; and

20        WHEREAS, Congressman Annunzio was a strident defender  of
21    the Italian-American heritage and its depiction in television
22    and  movies;  he  was  instrumental  in making Columbus Day a
23    national holiday; and

24        WHEREAS, The passing of Congressman Frank  Annunzio  will
25    be  deeply felt by all who knew and loved him, especially his
26    daughters   Linda   and   Susan;   his   grandchildren;   his
27    great-grandchildren; and his many friends and colleagues from
28    the United State Congress and State government; therefore, be
29    it

30        RESOLVED,  BY  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES   OF   THE
31    NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
32    we  mourn,  along  with all who knew him, the death of former
 
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 1    Illinois Congressman Frank Annunzio; and be it further

 2        RESOLVED, That a suitable  copy  of  this  resolution  be
 3    presented  to  the  family of Congressman Frank Annunzio with
 4    our sincere condolences.

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