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RECOGNIZING PHIL MATIER
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HON. ERIC SWALWELL
of california
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Mr. SWALWELL. Madam Speaker, along with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Representatives Mark DeSaulnier, Anna G. Eshoo, Jared Huffman, Ro Khanna, Barbara Lee, Zoe Lofgren, Jerry McNerney, Jackie Speier, and Mike Thompson, I rise to recognize California journalist Phil Matier on the occasion of his retirement from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Phil for decades has enlightened and entertained Bay Area readers with his well-sourced, trenchant columns. He has helped to clearly explain our region's ups and downs to generations of residents, often shining light on details that politicians and the well-connected would have preferred to keep hidden.
Phil, a graduate of the University of Arizona, worked at the Tucson
(AZ) Citizen before joining the San Francisco Examiner in the 1980s to report on city hall, where he met and soon partnered with Andy Ross. A Matier & Ross column became a fixture first at the Examiner and then at the Chronicle, even as Phil also expanded his media footprint into work with Bay Area television and radio stations.
Through his columns as well as his broadcast presence, Phil has explained the fine details of pressing issues, probed policymakers' personalities and character, and pushed for accountability and transparency in government.
His uncanny ability to elicit information from political figures, whether or not they wish to share it, is legendary. And his own personality--insightful, sometimes pugnacious, often expressed at high volume, but always fair--has shone through all of his work.
We thank Phil for sharing his talents with generations of newspaper readers, and we are glad we will continue to see and hear his broadcasts.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 35
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