[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18] [House] [Page 23089] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]TRIBUTE TO J.B. HUNT, SR. (Mr. BOOZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. BOOZMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of a great Arkansan, a giant of American business who passed away yesterday morning, J.B. Hunt of Springdale, Arkansas. He built a billion-dollar trucking business from humble beginnings, and in the span of a lifetime went from a sharecropper's son to the employer of over 16,000 people and a major force in shaping the economy of the Third District of Arkansas. He donated to charities, he was very, very active in his church, and was known to carry $100 bills in case he ran across somebody who needed help immediately. When asked why, he explained, I was hungry once, a lesson we can all learn from. I knew him when I was a young man, when he had absolutely no idea who I was; and I knew him when I was a young professional in my community, and later on as his Congressman. He was the kind of man that treated me the same in regard to all of those stations in life. He was a wonderful man, and certainly our prayers are with him, his wife Johnelle, his family, and his company which lives the American Dream every day. ____________________