Cecil A. Partee Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

started from nothing.
Q: Did that occur quite early in your legislative career?
A: Well, fairly early, yes, fairly early.
Q: Do you remember a specific bill of any sort that he was . . .
A: No, it was a series of bills. You know what would be helpful to me.
Q: Yes, sir?
A: If your staff would go back and look at my legislative record and pick out
what they consider the major kinds of bills and all that I was involved w ith,
I would like to see that and see what that included.
Q: All right, sir.
A: And it's a very easy thing to do. They just go back to the digests
[Legislative Synopsis and Digest] from that period and they're all alphabetized
and the whole thing in terms of the numbers and you can see which were the
major bills and which ones that T was leader on and so forth,
Q: Are there particular areas that you feel are really important to you?
A: Yes, I would thin--see, the way we've been really delving on the House
picture and--I spent ten years in the Senate and I have passed some rather
significant legislation in the Senate. For example, T passed the first bill
in the United States that mandates the teaching of consumer education in
high schools.
Q: Oh?
A: Some other just outstanding kinds of legislation, some of it in the banking
field and others. Go through the resolutions too. For example, I had the
lead on the resolution far the eighteen year old voting.
Q: Oh?
A: Some very significant kinds of stuff.
Q: All right, sir, W i l l that do it for today, then, sir?
A: Yes, that's fine.
Q: Good
A: The time just . . .