1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1237233650.42016 2 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,000 UNDER CLAUSE 6 OF RULE 20. 3 00:00:02,001 --> 00:00:03,000 RECORD VOTES ON POSTPONED 4 00:00:03,001 --> 00:00:04,000 QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER 5 00:00:04,001 --> 00:00:06,000 6:30 P.M. TODAY. 6 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:07,000 .D 7 00:00:07,001 --> 00:00:12,000 QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN AFTER 8 00:00:12,001 --> 00:00:13,000 6:30 P.M. TODAY. 9 00:00:13,001 --> 00:00:14,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 10 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:19,000 GENTLEMAN FR 11 00:00:19,001 --> 00:00:20,000 RISE? 12 00:00:20,001 --> 00:00:22,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I MOVE 13 00:00:22,001 --> 00:00:24,000 THAT THE HOUSE SUSPEND THE 14 00:00:24,001 --> 00:00:26,000 RULES AND PASS THE BILL H.R. 15 00:00:26,001 --> 00:00:29,000 987, BUT I AM -- I WANT TO GIVE 16 00:00:29,001 --> 00:00:34,000 EVERY COURTESY TO MY FRIEND 17 00:00:34,001 --> 00:00:37,000 FROM CALIFORNIA -- I MOVE THAT 18 00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:39,000 PASS THE BILL H.R. 987. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 19 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:41,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF THE BILL. 20 00:00:41,001 --> 00:00:43,000 THE CLERK: H.R. 987, A BILL TO 21 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:44,000 DESIGNATE THE FACILITY OF THE 22 00:00:44,001 --> 00:00:45,000 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 23 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:47,000 LOCATED AT 601 EIGHTH STREET IN 24 00:00:47,001 --> 00:00:48,000 FREEDOM, PENNSYLVANIA, AS THE 25 00:00:48,001 --> 00:00:49,000 JOHN SCOTT CHALLIS JR. POST 26 00:00:49,001 --> 00:00:50,000 OFFICE. 27 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:52,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 28 00:00:52,001 --> 00:00:53,000 PURSUANT TO THE RULE, THE 29 00:00:53,001 --> 00:00:54,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 30 00:00:54,001 --> 00:00:56,000 MR. LYNCH, AND THE GENTLEMAN 31 00:00:56,001 --> 00:00:57,000 FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. ISSA, EACH 32 00:00:57,001 --> 00:00:59,000 WILL CONTROL 20 MINUTES. THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 33 00:00:59,001 --> 00:01:01,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 34 00:01:01,001 --> 00:01:02,000 MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 35 00:01:02,001 --> 00:01:03,000 SPEAKER. 36 00:01:03,001 --> 00:01:04,000 I ASK UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT 37 00:01:04,001 --> 00:01:06,000 ALL MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIVE 38 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:07,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 39 00:01:07,001 --> 00:01:08,000 EXTE THEIR REMARKS. 40 00:01:08,001 --> 00:01:09,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 41 00:01:09,001 --> 00:01:11,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 42 00:01:11,001 --> 00:01:12,000 MR. LYNCH: YOU NOW YIELD MYSELF 43 00:01:12,001 --> 00:01:13,000 SUCH TIME AS I MAY CONSUME. 44 00:01:13,001 --> 00:01:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 45 00:01:15,001 --> 00:01:16,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 46 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:17,000 CH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 47 00:01:17,001 --> 00:01:18,000 MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 48 00:01:18,001 --> 00:01:20,000 SPEAKER. 49 00:01:20,001 --> 00:01:22,000 MR. SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY IN STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE 50 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:24,000 CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 987, THE 51 00:01:24,001 --> 00:01:25,000 BILL TO DESIGNATE THE UNITED 52 00:01:25,001 --> 00:01:26,000 STATES POSTAL FACILITY 53 00:01:26,001 --> 00:01:27,000 LOCATEDALITY 610 EIGHTH STREET 54 00:01:27,001 --> 00:01:29,000 IN FREEDOM, PENNSYLVANIA, AS 55 00:01:29,001 --> 00:01:31,000 THE JOHN SCOTT CHALLIS JR. POST OFFICE. 56 00:01:31,001 --> 00:01:33,000 INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE 57 00:01:33,001 --> 00:01:34,000 JASON ALTMIRE ON FEBRUARY 11, 58 00:01:34,001 --> 00:01:35,000 2009, AND REPORTED OUT OF THE 59 00:01:35,001 --> 00:01:38,000 OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM 60 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:40,000 COMMITTEE ON MARCH 10, 2009, BY 61 00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:41,000 VOICE VOTE, H.R. 987 ENJOYS THE 62 00:01:41,001 --> 00:01:43,000 SUPPORT OF THE ENTIRE 63 00:01:43,001 --> 00:01:46,000 PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE DELEGATION. 64 00:01:46,001 --> 00:01:50,000 AS RECENTLY NOTED IN THE 65 00:01:50,001 --> 00:01:51,000 ELLWOOD CITY LEDGER, JOHN SCOTT 66 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:53,000 CHALLIS JR. CAME INTO THIS 67 00:01:53,001 --> 00:01:54,000 WORLD FIGHTING. 68 00:01:54,001 --> 00:01:55,000 ONLY TWO DAYS AFTER HIS FIGHT 69 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:56,000 ON DECEMBER 16, JOHN WAS 70 00:01:56,001 --> 00:01:59,000 HELICOPTERED FROM THE MEDICAL 71 00:01:59,001 --> 00:02:03,000 CENTER IN BEAVER COUNTY TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN 72 00:02:03,001 --> 00:02:04,000 PITTSBURGH WHERE HE SPENT 16 73 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:06,000 DAYS IN A HOSPITAL -- IN 74 00:02:06,001 --> 00:02:08,000 HOSPITAL CARE AND RECEIVED 75 00:02:08,001 --> 00:02:09,000 LIFE-SAVING SURGERY. 76 00:02:09,001 --> 00:02:11,000 AND HIS BELOVED FAMILY AND 77 00:02:11,001 --> 00:02:13,000 FRIENDS IN BEAVER COUNTY, AS 78 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:14,000 WELL AS MANY OF US ACROSS THE 79 00:02:14,001 --> 00:02:16,000 NATION WELL KNOW THAT JAUFER 80 00:02:16,001 --> 00:02:17,000 NEVER STOPPED FIGHTING 81 00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:19,000 THROUGHOUT HIS -- JOHN NEVER 82 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:20,000 STOPPED FIGHTING THROUGHOUT HIS 83 00:02:20,001 --> 00:02:23,000 YOUNG LIFE. 84 00:02:23,001 --> 00:02:25,000 EVEN AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED WITH 85 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:27,000 AN ADULT FORM OF LIVER CANCER 86 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:28,000 AT THE SAGE AGE OF 16. 87 00:02:28,001 --> 00:02:31,000 JOHN'S RESPONSE TO HIS INITIAL 88 00:02:31,001 --> 00:02:32,000 DIAGNOSIS WAS INDICATIVE OF HIS 89 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:34,000 ETERNAL DETERMINATION AND 90 00:02:34,001 --> 00:02:36,000 RESOLVE AS WELL AS REFLECTION 91 00:02:36,001 --> 00:02:40,000 OF HIS OWN PERSONAL MOTTO OF 92 00:02:40,001 --> 00:02:42,000 COURAGE AND BELIEF EQUALS LIFE. 93 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:43,000 IN APRIL OF 2008, JOHN LEARNED 94 00:02:43,001 --> 00:02:46,000 THAT HIS CANCER HAD SPREAD AND 95 00:02:46,001 --> 00:02:48,000 THAT MOST LIKELY HE HAD ONLY A 96 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,000 FEW MONTHS TO LIVE. 97 00:02:51,001 --> 00:02:52,000 NEVERTHELESS, JOHN NEVER CEASED 98 00:02:52,001 --> 00:02:55,000 TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND 99 00:02:55,001 --> 00:02:56,000 DO WHAT HE LOVED MOST, PLAYING 100 00:02:56,001 --> 00:02:58,000 AND FOLLOWING THE GAME OF 101 00:02:58,001 --> 00:03:00,000 BASEBALL. 102 00:03:00,001 --> 00:03:02,000 ON APRIL 14, 2008, JOHN FIRST 103 00:03:02,001 --> 00:03:03,000 RECEIVED NATIONAL ATTENTION 104 00:03:03,001 --> 00:03:04,000 WHEN HE WAS ABLE TO PINCH-HIT 105 00:03:04,001 --> 00:03:07,000 FOR HIS BELOVED FREEDOM HIGH 106 00:03:07,001 --> 00:03:11,000 SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM AND A -- 107 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:15,000 IN A GAME AGAINST ALACIPA HIGH. 108 00:03:15,001 --> 00:03:17,000 HE HAD AN R.B.I. SINGLE AND 109 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:19,000 UPON MAKING IT TO FIRST BASE 110 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:22,000 PROUDLY EXCLAIMED TO EVERYONE, I DID IT, I DID IT. 111 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:23,000 THE FOLLOWING MONTH JOHN 112 00:03:23,001 --> 00:03:25,000 GRADUATED WITH HIS SENIOR 113 00:03:25,001 --> 00:03:28,000 CLASS. 114 00:03:28,001 --> 00:03:30,000 IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR HE TOOK A 115 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:31,000 FAMILY VACATION WITH HIS 116 00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:33,000 PARENTS AND HIS YOUNGER SISTER. 117 00:03:33,001 --> 00:03:37,000 HE ALSO VISITED THE PITTSBURGH 118 00:03:37,001 --> 00:03:38,000 PIRATES CLUBHOUSE AND REMINDED 119 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:40,000 THE PLAYERS TO CHERISH THE GAME 120 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:42,000 OF BASEBALL AND LIFE. 121 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:44,000 JOHN LOST HIS BATTLE OF CANCER 122 00:03:44,001 --> 00:03:47,000 IN AUGUST OF 2008. 123 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:48,000 HOWEVER, HIS MEMORY AND 124 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:49,000 INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE WILL 125 00:03:49,001 --> 00:03:52,000 NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. 126 00:03:52,001 --> 00:03:53,000 IN JOHN'S HONOR, THE JOHN 127 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:55,000 CHALLIS COURAGE FOR LIFE 128 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:56,000 FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED IN 129 00:03:56,001 --> 00:03:57,000 2008. 130 00:03:57,001 --> 00:03:58,000 THE ORGANIZATION IS DEDICATED 131 00:03:58,001 --> 00:04:01,000 PROVIDING SPORTS OPPORTUNITIES 132 00:04:01,001 --> 00:04:02,000 TO STUDENT ATHLETES WITH 133 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:04,000 LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESSS. 134 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:05,000 MR. SPEAKER, IT IS MY HOPE THAT 135 00:04:05,001 --> 00:04:07,000 WE CAN FURTHER SERVE TO HONOR 136 00:04:07,001 --> 00:04:08,000 JOHN'S LIFE THROUGH THE PASSAGE 137 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:10,000 OF THIS LEGISLATION BEFORE US. 138 00:04:10,001 --> 00:04:12,000 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 139 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:14,000 IN SUPPORTING H.R. 987, AND I 140 00:04:14,001 --> 00:04:16,000 RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 141 00:04:16,001 --> 00:04:17,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 142 00:04:17,001 --> 00:04:18,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 143 00:04:18,001 --> 00:04:19,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS 144 00:04:19,001 --> 00:04:21,000 TIME. 145 00:04:21,001 --> 00:04:22,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 146 00:04:22,001 --> 00:04:23,000 MR. ISSA, IS RECOGNIZED. 147 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:24,000 MR. ISSA: THANK YOU, MR. 148 00:04:24,001 --> 00:04:26,000 SPEAKER. 149 00:04:26,001 --> 00:04:27,000 I YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I 150 00:04:27,001 --> 00:04:28,000 MAY CONSUME. 151 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 152 00:04:29,001 --> 00:04:31,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 153 00:04:31,001 --> 00:04:33,000 MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. MR. ISSA: THANK YOU, MR. 154 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:34,000 SPEAKER. 155 00:04:34,001 --> 00:04:36,000 I RISE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF 156 00:04:36,001 --> 00:04:37,000 DESIGNATING THE FACILITY, THE 157 00:04:37,001 --> 00:04:38,000 UNITED STATES POSTAL FACILITY 158 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:40,000 AT 601 EIGHTH STREET IN 159 00:04:40,001 --> 00:04:41,000 FREEDOM, PENNSYLVANIA, THE JOHN 160 00:04:41,001 --> 00:04:42,000 SCOTT CHALLIS JR. POST OFFICE. 161 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:44,000 AND I PARTICULARLY AGREE WITH 162 00:04:44,001 --> 00:04:45,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 163 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:46,000 MASSACHUSETTS AND SHARE HIS 164 00:04:46,001 --> 00:04:48,000 BELIEF THAT COURAGE PLUS BELIEF 165 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:50,000 EQUALS LIFE. 166 00:04:50,001 --> 00:04:52,000 A SIMPLE BUT PROFOUND EQUATION 167 00:04:52,001 --> 00:04:53,000 IS MORE THAN AN INSPIRATIONAL 168 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:55,000 QUOTE. 169 00:04:55,001 --> 00:04:56,000 IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE 170 00:04:56,001 --> 00:04:59,000 CHARACTER AND THE LIFE OF ITS 171 00:04:59,001 --> 00:05:01,000 CREATOR, JOHN CHALLIS. 172 00:05:01,001 --> 00:05:03,000 BORN IN BEAVER COUNTY, 173 00:05:03,001 --> 00:05:04,000 PENNSYLVANIA, JOHN'S LIFE WAS 174 00:05:04,001 --> 00:05:06,000 TOO SHORT BUT NOT WITHOUT 175 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:09,000 MEANING. 176 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:11,000 MR. SPEAKER, OFTEN WE NAME POST 177 00:05:11,001 --> 00:05:14,000 OFFICES AFTER INDIVIDUALS WHO 178 00:05:14,001 --> 00:05:15,000 HAVE LIVED A LONG AND 179 00:05:15,001 --> 00:05:16,000 SIGNIFICANT LIFE. 180 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:19,000 SOMETIMES FORMER MEMBERS OF 181 00:05:19,001 --> 00:05:20,000 CONGRESS, PRESIDENTS AND THE 182 00:05:20,001 --> 00:05:21,000 LIKE. 183 00:05:21,001 --> 00:05:23,000 TODAY WE'RE NAMING AFTER 184 00:05:23,001 --> 00:05:27,000 SOMEONE WHOSE LIFE WAS CUT OFF ALTOGETHER TOO SOON. 185 00:05:27,001 --> 00:05:28,000 IN FACT, AFTER ONLY 18 YEARS, 186 00:05:28,001 --> 00:05:32,000 IT IS UNUSUAL THAT WE WOULD 187 00:05:32,001 --> 00:05:34,000 NAME A POST OFFICE AFTER 188 00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:36,000 SOMEBODY, BUT JOHN WENT THAT 189 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:38,000 EXTRA MILE TO INSPIRE AMERICA, 190 00:05:38,001 --> 00:05:40,000 REACHING NATIONAL PROMINENCE 191 00:05:40,001 --> 00:05:42,000 BECAUSE IN FACT HE WOULD NOT 192 00:05:42,001 --> 00:05:43,000 QUIT DEFYING THE ODDS BY 193 00:05:43,001 --> 00:05:45,000 STDING ON A BASEBALL FIELD 194 00:05:45,001 --> 00:05:47,000 WHEN MOST WOULD BE TOO WEAK TO 195 00:05:47,001 --> 00:05:48,000 GET OUT OF BED AND MAKING THE 196 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:50,000 DECISION THAT HE WAS GOING TO 197 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:52,000 LIVE HIS EVERY DREAM AS BEST HE 198 00:05:52,001 --> 00:05:54,000 COULD. 199 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:56,000 JOHN DID THAT AND HIS LIFE WILL 200 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:57,000 BE AN INSPIRATION AS LONG AS 201 00:05:57,001 --> 00:05:58,000 THAT MAKE SHALL BE AT THE POST 202 00:05:58,001 --> 00:06:00,000 OFFICE. 203 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:02,000 TODAY WE HONOR THAT. 204 00:06:02,001 --> 00:06:05,000 MR. SPEAKER, I'VE BEEN UP FOR 205 00:06:05,001 --> 00:06:06,000 HERE FOR MANY, MANY POSTAL 206 00:06:06,001 --> 00:06:07,000 NAMINGS AND ONCE IN A WHILE I 207 00:06:07,001 --> 00:06:09,000 GET COMMENTS FROM BACK HOME 208 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:11,000 SAYING WHY DO YOU SPEND SO MUC 209 00:06:11,001 --> 00:06:12,000 TIME NAMING POST OFFICES. 210 00:06:12,001 --> 00:06:14,000 AND I GUESS THE SHORT ANSWER 211 00:06:14,001 --> 00:06:16,000 IS, MR. SPEAKE BECAUSE WE 212 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:17,000 CAN, BUT ALSO THE LONGER ANSWER 213 00:06:17,001 --> 00:06:19,000 IS BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY 214 00:06:19,001 --> 00:06:23,000 EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE LIKE JOHN 215 00:06:23,001 --> 00:06:25,000 CHALLIS WHO IN FACT EXEMPLIFY 216 00:06:25,001 --> 00:06:26,000 ALL THAT IS GOOD IN AMERICA, 217 00:06:26,001 --> 00:06:28,000 ALL THAT GIVES US HOPE FOR THE 218 00:06:28,001 --> 00:06:31,000 FUTURE, ALL THAT IN FACT ALLOWS 219 00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:33,000 US EVERY DAY TO KNOW THAT 220 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:34,000 THROUGH THESE TROUBLED TIMES, 221 00:06:34,001 --> 00:06:35,000 THESE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS, THE 222 00:06:35,001 --> 00:06:37,000 RECESSION THAT'S BEFORE AMERICA 223 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:39,000 TODAY, THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE 224 00:06:39,001 --> 00:06:40,000 WHO GET UP EVERY MORNING NO 225 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:42,000 MATTER HOW HARD IT IS AND THEY 226 00:06:42,001 --> 00:06:44,000 DO THE BEST THEY CAN WITH THE 227 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:47,000 TIME THAT GOD GIVES THEM AND 228 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:51,000 WITH THE POWER THAT THEY HAVE. 229 00:06:51,001 --> 00:06:53,000 JOHN WAS IN EVERY SENSE A 230 00:06:53,001 --> 00:06:55,000 SURVIVOR AND HE'S SURVIVED BY 231 00:06:55,001 --> 00:06:56,000 HIS PARENTS AND YOUNGER SISTER 232 00:06:56,001 --> 00:06:58,000 WHO LIVE ON IN HIS MEMORY AND 233 00:06:58,001 --> 00:07:00,000 WHO IN FACT WILL FOR THE TIME 234 00:07:00,001 --> 00:07:01,000 THAT THIS POST OFFICE IS IN 235 00:07:01,001 --> 00:07:04,000 THEIR TOWN REALIZE THAT 236 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:05,000 INSPIRATIONS ARE IMPORTANT TO 237 00:07:05,001 --> 00:07:06,000 AMERICA AND PARTICULARLY IN 238 00:07:06,001 --> 00:07:08,000 DIFFICULT TIMES. 239 00:07:08,001 --> 00:07:10,000 SO I JOIN WITH THE MAJORITY 240 00:07:10,001 --> 00:07:13,000 TODAY ASKING THAT THIS UNUSUAL 241 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:14,000 NAMING OF A POST OFFICE BE 242 00:07:14,001 --> 00:07:16,000 PASSED BECAUSE IN FACT JOHN'S 243 00:07:16,001 --> 00:07:18,000 LIFE WAS SO SPECIAL TO AMERICA 244 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:20,000 AND BECAUSE AT A TIME LIKE THIS 245 00:07:20,001 --> 00:07:21,000 INSPIRATION IS IMPORTANT TO 246 00:07:21,001 --> 00:07:24,000 ALL. 247 00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:25,000 TIME. 248 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 249 00:07:26,001 --> 00:07:28,000 GENTLEMAN FROM, MR. ISSA, 250 00:07:28,001 --> 00:07:29,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS 251 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:30,000 TIME. 252 00:07:30,001 --> 00:07:31,000 THE GENTMAN FROM 253 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:32,000 MASSACHUSETTS, MR. LYNCH. 254 00:07:32,001 --> 00:07:34,000 MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 255 00:07:34,001 --> 00:07:35,000 SPEAKER. 256 00:07:35,001 --> 00:07:36,000 WE CONTINUE TO RESERVE AT THIS 257 00:07:36,001 --> 00:07:37,000 TIME. 258 00:07:37,001 --> 00:07:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 259 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:40,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 260 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:41,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS 261 00:07:41,001 --> 00:07:43,000 TIME. 262 00:07:43,001 --> 00:07:44,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 263 00:07:44,001 --> 00:07:45,000 MR. ISSA: I WOULD YIELD BACK 264 00:07:45,001 --> 00:07:47,000 THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 265 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 266 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:49,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 267 00:07:49,001 --> 00:07:50,000 YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS 268 00:07:50,001 --> 00:07:52,000 TIME. 269 00:07:52,001 --> 00:07:53,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM 270 00:07:53,001 --> 00:07:54,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 271 00:07:54,001 --> 00:07:55,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, BEFORE 272 00:07:55,001 --> 00:07:57,000 CLOSING I'D LIKE TO MENTION 273 00:07:57,001 --> 00:07:58,000 THAT THE GENTLEMAN FROM 274 00:07:58,001 --> 00:07:59,000 PENNSYLVANIA, MR. ALTMIRE, WHO 275 00:07:59,001 --> 00:08:01,000 WAS THE CHIEF SPONSOR -- LEAD 276 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:02,000 SPONSOR OF THE BILL UNDER 277 00:08:02,001 --> 00:08:03,000 CONSIDERATION HAS INRMED THAT 278 00:08:03,001 --> 00:08:05,000 HE IS EN ROUTE, HOWEVER HE 279 00:08:05,001 --> 00:08:06,000 INFORMS US THAT HE REGRETS NOT 280 00:08:06,001 --> 00:08:07,000 BEING ABLE HERE FOR THIS 281 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:09,000 DISCUSSION BUT HE ASKS THAT THE 282 00:08:09,001 --> 00:08:10,000 SUPPORT OF THE BILL AND THE 283 00:08:10,001 --> 00:08:11,000 CHALLIS FAMILY BE KNOWN. 284 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:12,000 NOW, HE HAS ALSO ASKED TO HAVE 285 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:14,000 HIS STATEMENT -- PREPARED 286 00:08:14,001 --> 00:08:15,000 STATEMENT INCLUDED IN THE 287 00:08:15,001 --> 00:08:16,000 RECORD. 288 00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:17,000 AGAIN, 289 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:19,000 COLLEAGUES TO JOIN MYSELF AND 290 00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:20,000 REPRESENTATIVE ALTMIRE AND THE 291 00:08:20,001 --> 00:08:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IN 292 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:24,000 SUPPORTING H.R. 987. 293 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:25,000 AND I NOW YIELD THE BALANCE OF 294 00:08:25,001 --> 00:08:26,000 OUR TIME. 295 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:27,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 296 00:08:27,001 --> 00:08:28,000 QUESTION IS WILL THE HOUSE 297 00:08:28,001 --> 00:08:30,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 298 00:08:30,001 --> 00:08:31,000 987. 299 00:08:31,001 --> 00:08:33,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 300 00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:34,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 301 00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:36,000 IN THE OPINION 302 00:08:36,001 --> 00:08:37,000 2/3 HAVING RESPONDED IN THE 303 00:08:37,001 --> 00:08:38,000 AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES ARE 304 00:08:38,001 --> 00:08:40,000 SUSPENDED -- 305 00:08:40,001 --> 00:08:41,000 MR. NCH: MR. SPEAKER. 306 00:08:41,001 --> 00:08:42,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: AND 307 00:08:42,001 --> 00:08:44,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION A MOTION TO 308 00:08:44,001 --> 00:08:45,000 RECONSIDER IS LAID ON THE 309 00:08:45,001 --> 00:08:47,000 TABLE. THE GENTLEMAN FROM 310 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:49,000 MASSACHUSETTS. 311 00:08:49,001 --> 00:08:50,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I ASK 312 00:08:50,001 --> 00:08:51,000 FOR THE CALL OF THE YEAS AND 313 00:08:51,001 --> 00:08:52,000 NAYS. 314 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 315 00:08:54,001 --> 00:08:56,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 316 00:08:56,001 --> 00:08:58,000 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TAKING THIS VOTE BY THE YEAS AND NAYS 317 00:08:58,001 --> 00:09:00,000 WILL RISE AND REMAIN STANDING UNTIL COUNTED. 318 00:09:00,001 --> 00:09:02,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING 319 00:09:02,001 --> 00:09:03,000 ARISEN, THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE 320 00:09:03,001 --> 00:09:04,000 ORDERED. 321 00:09:04,001 --> 00:09:05,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20 322 00:09:05,001 --> 00:09:06,000 AND THE CHAIR'S PRIOR 323 00:09:06,001 --> 00:09:08,000 ANNOUNCEMENT, FURTHER 324 00:09:08,001 --> 00:09:09,000 PROCEEDINGS ON THIS MOTION WILL 325 00:09:09,001 --> 00:09:10,000 BE POSTPONED. 326 00:09:10,001 --> 00:09:12,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 327 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:13,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSAUSETTS 328 00:09:13,001 --> 00:09:14,000 RISE? 329 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:15,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I MOVE 330 00:09:15,001 --> 00:09:17,000 THAT THE HOUSE SUSPEND THE 331 00:09:17,001 --> 00:09:19,000 RULES AND PASS THE BILL H.R. 1217. 332 00:09:19,001 --> 00:09:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 333 00:09:21,001 --> 00:09:22,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF 334 00:09:22,001 --> 00:09:23,000 THE BILL. 335 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:24,000 THE CLERK: H.R. 1217, A BILL TO 336 00:09:24,001 --> 00:09:26,000 DESIGNATE THE FACILITY OF THE 337 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:27,000 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 338 00:09:27,001 --> 00:09:28,000 LOCATED AT 15455 MANCHESTER 339 00:09:28,001 --> 00:09:30,000 ROAD IN BALLWIN, MISSOURI, AS 340 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:32,000 THE SPECIALIST PETER J. NAVARRO POST OFFICE BUILDING. 341 00:09:32,001 --> 00:09:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 342 00:09:33,001 --> 00:09:35,000 PURSUANT TO THE RULE, THE 343 00:09:35,001 --> 00:09:36,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 344 00:09:36,001 --> 00:09:37,000 MR. LYNCH, AND THE GENTLEMAN 345 00:09:37,001 --> 00:09:39,000 FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. ISSA, EACH 346 00:09:39,001 --> 00:09:40,000 WILL CONTROL 20 MINUTES. 347 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:41,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 348 00:09:41,001 --> 00:09:42,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 349 00:09:42,001 --> 00:09:44,000 MR. LYNCH. 350 00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:45,000 MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 351 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:46,000 SPEAKER. 352 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:47,000 MR. SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS 353 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:49,000 CONSENT THAT ALL MEMBERS MAY 354 00:09:49,001 --> 00:09:50,000 HAVE FIVE LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO 355 00:09:50,001 --> 00:09:51,000 REVISE AND EXTEND THEIR REMARKS 356 00:09:51,001 --> 00:09:52,000 . 357 00:09:52,001 --> 00:09:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 358 00:09:54,001 --> 00:09:55,000 WITHOUT OBJECTION. 359 00:09:55,001 --> 00:09:56,000 MRLYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I NOW 360 00:09:56,001 --> 00:09:57,000 YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY 361 00:09:57,001 --> 00:09:59,000 CONSUME. 362 00:09:59,001 --> 00:10:00,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 363 00:10:00,001 --> 00:10:01,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 364 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:03,000 MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 365 00:10:03,001 --> 00:10:04,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, IT IS 366 00:10:04,001 --> 00:10:05,000 MY HONOR TO PRESENT FOR 367 00:10:05,001 --> 00:10:07,000 CONSIDERATION H.R. 1217, WHICH 368 00:10:07,001 --> 00:10:08,000 DESIGNATES THE UNITED STATES 369 00:10:08,001 --> 00:10:09,000 POSTAL FACILITY LOCATED AT 370 00:10:09,001 --> 00:10:10,000 15455 MANCHESTER ROAD IN 371 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:12,000 BALLWIN, MISSOURI, AS THE 372 00:10:12,001 --> 00:10:13,000 SPECIALIST PETER J. NAVARRO 373 00:10:13,001 --> 00:10:14,000 POST OFFICE BUILDING. 374 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:19,000 INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE 375 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:21,000 TODD W. AKIN ON FEBRUARY 26, 376 00:10:21,001 --> 00:10:22,000 2009 AND REPORTED OUT OF THE 377 00:10:22,001 --> 00:10:25,000 OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE AND 378 00:10:25,001 --> 00:10:26,000 GOVERNMENT REFORM ON MARCH 10, 379 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:29,000 2009, BY A VOICE VOTE, H.R. 380 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:30,000 1217 ENJOYS THE SUPPORT -- THE 381 00:10:30,001 --> 00:10:33,000 UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OF THE ENTIRE 382 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:34,000 MISSOURI HOUSE DELEGATION. 383 00:10:34,001 --> 00:10:37,000 A RESIDENT OF WILDWOOD, 384 00:10:37,001 --> 00:10:38,000 MISSOURI, SPECIALIST PETER 385 00:10:38,001 --> 00:10:40,000 JOSEPH NAVARRO BRAVELY SERVED 386 00:10:40,001 --> 00:10:42,000 WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY 387 00:10:42,001 --> 00:10:44,000 SECOND BATTALION, 70TH ARMOR, 388 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:47,000 THIRD BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM OUT 389 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:50,000 OF FORT RILEY, KANSAS. 390 00:10:50,001 --> 00:10:51,000 ON DECEMBER 13, 2005, 391 00:10:51,001 --> 00:10:53,000 SPECIALIST NAVARRO AND THREE 392 00:10:53,001 --> 00:10:58,000 FELLOW MEMBERS OF HIS UNIT WERE 393 00:10:58,001 --> 00:11:00,000 KILLED IN IRAQ 394 00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:02,000 IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE 395 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:11,000 DETONATED NEAR THEIR HUMVEE 396 00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:13,000 WHILE -- HE GRADUATED FROM 397 00:11:13,001 --> 00:11:19,000 LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL IN 2003. 398 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:21,000 HE SUBSEQUENTLY DECIDED TO 399 00:11:21,001 --> 00:11:22,000 FORGO HIS ACCEPTANCE TO COLLEGE 400 00:11:22,001 --> 00:11:23,000 TO GO TO THE UNITED STATES 401 00:11:23,001 --> 00:11:26,000 ARMY. 402 00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:28,000 AS NOTED BY JOSE FATHER, 403 00:11:28,001 --> 00:11:30,000 SPECIALIST NAVARRO WAS A 404 00:11:30,001 --> 00:11:31,000 STRONG-WILLED YOUNG MAN AND A 405 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:33,000 DEDICATED SOLDIER WHO CARED FOR 406 00:11:33,001 --> 00:11:36,000 THE SOLDIERS THAT HE WORKED 407 00:11:36,001 --> 00:11:37,000 WAND WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HIS 408 00:11:37,001 --> 00:11:38,000 FRIENDS. 409 00:11:38,001 --> 00:11:39,000 MR. NAVARRO RECOUNTS THAT HIS 410 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:41,000 SON WANTED TO TRY AND MAKE A 411 00:11:41,001 --> 00:11:43,000 DIFFERENCE AND THAT BEING A 412 00:11:43,001 --> 00:11:45,000 SOLDIER WAS WHAT MAKING A 413 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:46,000 DIFFERENCE IS IN THIS TIME OF 414 00:11:46,001 --> 00:11:47,000 OUR LIVES. 415 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:51,000 SPIALIST NAVARRO'S DEDICATION 416 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:52,000 TO HIS UNIT AND HIS COUNTRY WAS 417 00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:55,000 EVIDENCED IN JULY OF 2005 WHEN 418 00:11:55,001 --> 00:11:56,000 HE RETURNED HOME TO WILDWOOD TO 419 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:59,000 RETURN THE FUNERAL OF HIS 420 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:02,000 YOUNGER BROTHER, DANIEL, WHO 421 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:03,000 WAS KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT. 422 00:12:03,001 --> 00:12:06,000 HIS MOTHER BEGGED HER SON NOT 423 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:08,000 TO RETURN TO IRA IN THE 424 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:10,000 SUMMER. 425 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:11,000 AS MRS. NAVARRO RECALLS HER SON 426 00:12:11,001 --> 00:12:13,000 TELLING HER, MOM, THERE WOULD 427 00:12:13,001 --> 00:12:15,000 BE A MAN SHORT, SOMEBODY IS 428 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:16,000 TAKING MY PLACE AND THAT IS NOT 429 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:18,000 FAIR. 430 00:12:18,001 --> 00:12:20,000 THEY WOULD DO THE SAME FOR ME. 431 00:12:20,001 --> 00:12:22,000 CLOSED QUOTE. 432 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:23,000 MR. SPEAKER, AS HIS LIFE STANDS 433 00:12:23,001 --> 00:12:25,000 AS A TESTAMENT TO THE BRAVERY 434 00:12:25,001 --> 00:12:26,000 AND DEDICATION OF THE HEROIC 435 00:12:26,001 --> 00:12:27,000 MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED 436 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:28,000 AND CONTINUE TO SERVE OUR 437 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:31,000 NATION AT HOME AND ABROAD, AND 438 00:12:31,001 --> 00:12:34,000 IT IS MY HOPE THAT WE CAN FURTHER HONOR HIS SERVICE 439 00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:35,000 THROUGH THE PASSAGE OF THIS 440 00:12:35,001 --> 00:12:36,000 LEGISLATION. 441 00:12:36,001 --> 00:12:39,000 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 442 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:42,000 IN SUPPORTING H.R. 1217 IN 443 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:43,000 DEDICATING THE MANCHESTER ROAD 444 00:12:43,001 --> 00:12:44,000 POST OFFICE IN BALLWIN, 445 00:12:44,001 --> 00:12:45,000 MISSOURI, AFTER THIS 446 00:12:45,001 --> 00:12:47,000 OUTSTANDING AMERICAN SOLDIER. 447 00:12:47,001 --> 00:12:48,000 AND I RESERVE THE BALANCE OF MY 448 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:49,000 TIME. 449 00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:51,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 450 00:12:51,001 --> 00:12:52,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 451 00:12:52,001 --> 00:12:53,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS 452 00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:54,000 TIME. 453 00:12:54,001 --> 00:12:56,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 454 00:12:56,001 --> 00:12:57,000 MR. ISSA, IS RECOGNIZED. 455 00:12:57,001 --> 00:12:58,000 MR. ISSA: THANK YOU, MR. 456 00:12:58,001 --> 00:12:59,000 SPEAKER. 457 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:00,000 I YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I 458 00:13:00,001 --> 00:13:02,000 MAY CONSUME. 459 00:13:02,001 --> 00:13:03,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 460 00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:05,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 461 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:06,000 MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 462 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:07,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, I RISE 463 00:13:07,001 --> 00:13:09,000 TODAY IN STRONG SUPPORT OF 464 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:10,000 DESIGNATING THE FACILITY OF THE 465 00:13:10,001 --> 00:13:11,000 UNITED STATE 466 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:13,000 LOCATED AT 15455 MANCHESTE 467 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:14,000 ROAD IN BALLWIN, MISSOURI, TO 468 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:15,000 -- AS THE SPECIALIST PETER J. 469 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:17,000 NAVARRO POST OFFICE BUILDING. 470 00:13:17,001 --> 00:13:18,000 AS YOU MAY KNOW IN THE PREVIOUS 471 00:13:18,001 --> 00:13:21,000 CONGRESS WE HAD VOTED TO NAME 472 00:13:21,001 --> 00:13:22,000 THIS POST OFFICE, AND 473 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:25,000 UNFORTUNATELY THE TERM ENDED 474 00:13:25,001 --> 00:13:26,000 BEFORE WE WERE ABLE TO PASS 475 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:28,000 THIS. 476 00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:29,000 BUT IT -- EXCUSE ME -- THE 477 00:13:29,001 --> 00:13:30,000 FAILURE OF THE SENATE TO ACT 478 00:13:30,001 --> 00:13:32,000 SHOULD NOT DIMINISH WHAT 479 00:13:32,001 --> 00:13:34,000 HAPPENED IN THE SUMMER OF 2005 480 00:13:34,001 --> 00:13:37,000 WHEN SPECIALIST PETER J. THAT 481 00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:40,000 JARO RETURNED HOME FROM DUTY -- 482 00:13:40,001 --> 00:13:41,000 NAVARRO RETURNED HOME FROM DUTY 483 00:13:41,001 --> 00:13:43,000 IN IRAQ TO GO TO MISSOURI, NOT 484 00:13:43,001 --> 00:13:45,000 FOR A JOYFUL REUNION, BUT FOR 485 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:47,000 THE -- TO BURY HIS YOUNGER 486 00:13:47,001 --> 00:13:48,000 BROTHER WHO HAD DIED IN A CAR 487 00:13:48,001 --> 00:13:52,000 ACCIDENT. 488 00:13:52,001 --> 00:13:53,000 AFTER DANIEL'S FUNERAL, PETER'S 489 00:13:53,001 --> 00:13:54,000 MOTHER, DISTRAUGHT OVER THE 490 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:56,000 LOSS OF HER MIDDLE SON, BEGGED 491 00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:57,000 HIM NOT TO RETURN TO IRAQ. 492 00:13:57,001 --> 00:13:59,000 THIS YOUNG MAN'S RESPONSE TO 493 00:13:59,001 --> 00:14:00,000 HIS GRIEVING MOTHER IS NOTHING 494 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:04,000 SHORT OF HEROIC. 495 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:07,000 HE HAD TO GO BACK, MOM, HE SAID 496 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:08,000 -- EXCUSE ME -- THEY WOULD BE A 497 00:14:08,001 --> 00:14:10,000 MAN SHORT. 498 00:14:10,001 --> 00:14:11,000 SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE TO TAKE HIS 499 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:12,000 PLACE. 500 00:14:12,001 --> 00:14:14,000 IT'S NOT FAIR. 501 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:17,000 THIS SELFISH DEVOTION TO HIS 502 00:14:17,001 --> 00:14:18,000 COMRADES AND HIS COUNTRY 503 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:21,000 EXEMPLIFIED THE COURAGE OF THIS 504 00:14:21,001 --> 00:14:24,000 YOUNG MAN. 505 00:14:24,001 --> 00:14:27,000 FORGOING HIS ACCEPTANCE TO 506 00:14:27,001 --> 00:14:28,000 TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY, HE 507 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:30,000 ENLISTED IN THE ARMY AFTER HIS 508 00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:33,000 GRADUATION FROM LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL IN 2003. 509 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:34,000 THIS YOUNG MAN BELVED THAT 510 00:14:34,001 --> 00:14:36,000 THE MISSION, MEN AND COUNTRY HE 511 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:37,000 SERVED. 512 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:39,000 TRAGICALLY ON DECEMBER 13, 513 00:14:39,001 --> 00:14:40,000 2005, JUST ONE MONTH BEFORE HE 514 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:43,000 WAS SCHEDULED TO END HIS 515 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:46,000 DEPLOYMENT, SPECIALIST NAVARRO 516 00:14:46,001 --> 00:14:47,000 LOST HIS LIFE WHILE ON PATROL 517 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:48,000 IN IRAQ. 518 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:50,000 SPECIALIST NAVARRO HAS BEEN 519 00:14:50,001 --> 00:14:52,000 AWARDED THE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL, 520 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:55,000 THE PURPLE HEART AND THE BRONZE 521 00:14:55,001 --> 00:14:56,000 STAR FOR HIS SERVICE. 522 00:14:56,001 --> 00:15:00,000 SPECIALIST NAVARRO'S FATHER, A 523 00:15:00,001 --> 00:15:03,000 VETERAN OF THE NAVY, REMBERS 524 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:05,000 THIS STRONG-WILLED SON OF HIS 525 00:15:05,001 --> 00:15:06,000 WITH ADMRATION. 526 00:15:06,001 --> 00:15:08,000 HE DIED BECAUSE HE WAS TRYING 527 00:15:08,001 --> 00:15:11,000 TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND BEING 528 00:15:11,001 --> 00:15:13,000 A SOLDIER WAS -- WAS WHAT 529 00:15:13,001 --> 00:15:14,000 MAKING A DIFFERENCE AT THAT 530 00:15:14,001 --> 00:15:16,000 TIME IN LIFE MEANT. 531 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:18,000 LIKE MANY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN 532 00:15:18,001 --> 00:15:20,000 IN UNIFORM TODAY SERVING OUR 533 00:15:20,001 --> 00:15:21,000 COUNTRY, SPECIALIST NAVARRO IN 534 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:24,000 FACT HAS MADE A DECISION TO GO 535 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:25,000 IN HARM'S WAY TO HELP ANOTHER 536 00:15:25,001 --> 00:15:28,000 PEOPLE FAR AWAY, PEOPLE HE 537 00:15:28,001 --> 00:15:30,000 NEVER MET, PEOPLE HE KNOWS 538 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:32,000 NOTHING ABOUT AND PEOPLE WHO HE 539 00:15:32,001 --> 00:15:33,000 ONLY KNOWS HE'S GOING BECAUSE 540 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:34,000 OUR COUNTRY IS THERE AND 541 00:15:34,001 --> 00:15:35,000 BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE A 542 00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:38,000 DIFFERENCE. 543 00:15:38,001 --> 00:15:40,000 . 544 00:15:40,001 --> 00:15:43,000 I JOIN WITH CONGRESSMAN AKIN WHO 545 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:44,000 COULD NOT BE HERE FOR THE 546 00:15:44,001 --> 00:15:46,000 PASSAGE OF HIS BILL IN SAYING 547 00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:48,000 THIS IS THE RIGHT NAME IN THIS 548 00:15:48,001 --> 00:15:50,000 TOWN FOR THE RIGHT INDIVIDUAL 549 00:15:50,001 --> 00:15:51,000 WHO GAVE SO COMPLETELY TO THE 550 00:15:51,001 --> 00:15:52,000 AMERICAN PEOPL 551 00:15:52,001 --> 00:15:54,000 I URGE SUPPORT ANDESERVE THE 552 00:15:54,001 --> 00:15:55,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 553 00:15:55,001 --> 00:15:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 554 00:15:56,001 --> 00:15:57,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. 555 00:15:57,001 --> 00:15:58,000 ISSA, RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 556 00:15:58,001 --> 00:15:59,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, MR. LYNCH. 557 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:01,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, WE HAVE 558 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:02,000 NO FURTHER SPEAKERS. 559 00:16:02,001 --> 00:16:03,000 I CONTINUE TO RESERVE. 560 00:16:03,001 --> 00:16:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 561 00:16:04,001 --> 00:16:05,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 562 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:07,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 563 00:16:07,001 --> 00:16:09,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, I HAVE NO 564 00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:11,000 FURTHER SPEAKERS AT THIS TIME. 565 00:16:11,001 --> 00:16:12,000 AND WOULD URGE SUPPORT FOR H.R. 566 00:16:12,001 --> 00:16:13,000 1217, AND YIELD BACK THE BALANCE 567 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:14,000 OF MY TIME. 568 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 569 00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:16,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 570 00:16:16,001 --> 00:16:17,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. THE GENTLEMAN FROM 571 00:16:17,001 --> 00:16:18,000 MASSACHUSETTS. MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 572 00:16:18,001 --> 00:16:19,000 SPEAKER. 573 00:16:19,001 --> 00:16:21,000 AGAIN, MR. SPEAKER, I'D LIKE TO 574 00:16:21,001 --> 00:16:22,000 MISSOURI, MR. AKIN, FOR 575 00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:23,000 AUTHORING THE MEASURE AT HAND. 576 00:16:23,001 --> 00:16:26,000 I URGE MYOLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT 577 00:16:26,001 --> 00:16:28,000 THE PASSAGE OF H.R. 1217, AND I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 578 00:16:28,001 --> 00:16:29,000 TIME. 579 00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ALL 580 00:16:30,001 --> 00:16:31,000 TIME HAVING BEEN YIELDED BACK, 581 00:16:31,001 --> 00:16:33,000 THE QUESTION IS WILL THE HOUSE 582 00:16:33,001 --> 00:16:35,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1217. 583 00:16:35,001 --> 00:16:38,000 SO MANY AS ARE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 584 00:16:38,001 --> 00:16:39,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 585 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:40,000 IN THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR, 2/3 586 00:16:40,001 --> 00:16:41,000 OF THOSE VOTING HAVING RESPONDED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES 587 00:16:41,001 --> 00:16:42,000 ARE SUSPENDED, THE BILL IS 588 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,000 PASSED, AND WITHOUT OBJECTION 589 00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:45,000 THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID UPON THE TABLE. 590 00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:48,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, I ASK FOR 591 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:49,000 THE YEAS AND NAYS. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 592 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:50,000 GENTLEMAN FROM REQUESTS THE YEAS 593 00:16:50,001 --> 00:16:51,000 AND NAYS. 594 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:52,000 THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 595 00:16:52,001 --> 00:16:53,000 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TAKING 596 00:16:53,001 --> 00:16:55,000 THIS VOTE BY THE YEAS AND NAYS 597 00:16:55,001 --> 00:16:56,000 WILL RISE AND REMAIN STANDING 598 00:16:56,001 --> 00:16:57,000 UNTIL COUNTED. 599 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:58,000 A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING 600 00:16:58,001 --> 00:17:00,000 ARISEN, THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE ORDERED. 601 00:17:00,001 --> 00:17:01,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20 602 00:17:01,001 --> 00:17:02,000 AND THE CHAIR'S PRIOR 603 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:03,000 ANUNCEMENT, FURTHER 604 00:17:03,001 --> 00:17:07,000 PROCEEDINGS ON THIS MOTION WILL 605 00:17:07,001 --> 00:17:08,000 BE POSTPONED.? 606 00:17:08,001 --> 00:17:09,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 607 00:17:09,001 --> 00:17:10,000 RISE? 608 00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:13,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I MOVE THAT THE HOUSE SUSPEND THE RULES 609 00:17:13,001 --> 00:17:14,000 AND PASS THE BILL H.R. 1284. 610 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 611 00:17:15,001 --> 00:17:18,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF THE BILL. 612 00:17:18,001 --> 00:17:19,000 THE CLERK: H.R. 1284, A BILL TO 613 00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:20,000 DESIGNATE THE FACILITY OF THE 614 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:22,000 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 615 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:25,000 LOCATED AT 103 WEST MAIN STREET 616 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,000 IN MCLEAN, MISSISSIPPI, AS 617 00:17:27,001 --> 00:17:28,000 MAJOR ED W. FREEMAN POST OFFICE. 618 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 619 00:17:29,001 --> 00:17:30,000 PURSUANT TO THE RULE, THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 620 00:17:30,001 --> 00:17:32,000 MR. LYNCH, AND THE GENTLEMAN 621 00:17:32,001 --> 00:17:33,000 FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. ISSA, EACH 622 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:34,000 WILL CONTROL 20 MINUTES. 623 00:17:34,001 --> 00:17:35,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 624 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:37,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 625 00:17:37,001 --> 00:17:38,000 MR. LYNCH: THANK YOU, MR. 626 00:17:38,001 --> 00:17:39,000 SPEAKER. 627 00:17:39,001 --> 00:17:40,000 MR. SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS 628 00:17:40,001 --> 00:17:41,000 CONSENT THAT ALL MEMBERS MAY 629 00:17:41,001 --> 00:17:43,000 VE FIVE LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO 630 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:44,000 REVISE AND EXTEND THEIR REMARKS. 631 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:46,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 632 00:17:46,001 --> 00:17:47,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 633 00:17:47,001 --> 00:17:48,000 MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY 634 00:17:48,001 --> 00:17:49,000 CONSUME. 635 00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:51,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 636 00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:53,000 MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 637 00:17:53,001 --> 00:17:54,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. CHAIRMAN -- MR. 638 00:17:54,001 --> 00:17:55,000 SPEAKER, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE 639 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:57,000 HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE WITH 640 00:17:57,001 --> 00:17:58,000 JURISDICTION OVER THE UNITED 641 00:17:58,001 --> 00:17:59,000 STATES POSTAL SERVICE, I AM 642 00:17:59,001 --> 00:18:01,000 PLEASED TO PRESENT FOR 643 00:18:01,001 --> 00:18:03,000 CONSIDERATION H.R. 1284, A 644 00:18:03,001 --> 00:18:05,000 TO DESIGNATE THE UNITED STATES 645 00:18:05,001 --> 00:18:08,000 POSTAL FACILITY LOCATED AT 103 646 00:18:08,001 --> 00:18:10,000 WEST MAIN STREET IN MCLAIN, 647 00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:12,000 MISSISSIPPI, AS THE MAJOR ED W. 648 00:18:12,001 --> 00:18:14,000 FREEMAN POST OFFICE BUILDING. 649 00:18:14,001 --> 00:18:16,000 INTRODUCED BY MY FRIEND, 650 00:18:16,001 --> 00:18:18,000 REPRESENTATIVE GENE TAYLOR, ON 651 00:18:18,001 --> 00:18:20,000 MARCH 3, 2009, AND REPORTED OUT 652 00:18:20,001 --> 00:18:21,000 OF THE OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT 653 00:18:21,001 --> 00:18:24,000 REFORM COMMITTEE ON MARCH 10, 654 00:18:24,001 --> 00:18:26,000 2009, BY VOICE VOTE, H.R. 1284 655 00:18:26,001 --> 00:18:28,000 ENJOYS THE SUPPORT OF THE ENTIRE 656 00:18:28,001 --> 00:18:30,000 MISSISSIPPI HOUSE DELEGATION. 657 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:34,000 BORN IN NEALY, MISSISSIPPI, ON 658 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:35,000 NOVEMBER 20, 1927, MAJOR ED W. 659 00:18:35,001 --> 00:18:36,000 FREEMAN PROUDLY SERVED HIS 660 00:18:36,001 --> 00:18:40,000 COUNTRY IN THE UNITED STATES 661 00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:41,000 ARMY AS A FIXED AND ROTARY WING 662 00:18:41,001 --> 00:18:43,000 AIRCRAFT PILOT. 663 00:18:43,001 --> 00:18:44,000 ON JULY 16, 2001, PRESIDENT 664 00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:47,000 GEORGE W. BUSH PRESENTED MAJOR 665 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:49,000 FREEMAN WITH THE MEDAL OF HONOR, 666 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:50,000 UNITED STATES MILITARY'S HIGHEST 667 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:52,000 COMMENDATION IN RECOGNITION OF 668 00:18:52,001 --> 00:18:53,000 HIS BRAVE ACTIONS DURING THE 669 00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:55,000 VIETNAM WAR. 670 00:18:55,001 --> 00:18:56,000 MAJOR FREEMAN BEGAN HIS 671 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:59,000 DISTINGUISHED MILITARY CAREER AT 672 00:18:59,001 --> 00:19:02,000 THE AGE OF 17 WITH TWO YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE UNITED STATES 673 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:03,000 NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II, HE 674 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,000 SUBSEQUENTLY JOINED THE UNITED 675 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:06,000 STATES ARMY SERVING IN GERMANY 676 00:19:06,001 --> 00:19:08,000 FOR FOUR YEARS BEFORE BEING 677 00:19:08,001 --> 00:19:10,000 DEPLOYED TO KOREA. 678 00:19:10,001 --> 00:19:14,000 NOTABLY MAJOR FREEMAN RECEIVED 679 00:19:14,001 --> 00:19:15,000 HIS WELL FAMILIAR NICKNAME OF 680 00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:17,000 TOO TALL AFTER BEING TOLD HE WAS 681 00:19:17,001 --> 00:19:18,000 TOO TALL TO SERVE AS AN ARMY 682 00:19:18,001 --> 00:19:19,000 PILOT. 683 00:19:19,001 --> 00:19:23,000 HE QUICKLY DISPELLED THIS NOTION 684 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:25,000 BY BECOMING ONE OF THE ARMY'S 685 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:27,000 FINEST HELICOPTER PILOTS. 686 00:19:27,001 --> 00:19:29,000 HIS BRAVEY, DEDICATION, AND 687 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:32,000 FLYING SKILLS WERE NEVER MORE 688 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:37,000 EVIDENT THAN ON NOVEMBER 14, 689 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:41,000 1965 DURING THE BATTLE OF LA 690 00:19:41,001 --> 00:19:42,000 DRANK AS NOTED IN HIS MEDAL OF 691 00:19:42,001 --> 00:19:44,000 HONOR CITION. 692 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:45,000 MAJOR FREEMAN, QUOTE, 693 00:19:45,001 --> 00:19:47,000 DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF BY 694 00:19:47,001 --> 00:19:49,000 NUMEROUS ACTS OF CONSPICUOUS 695 00:19:49,001 --> 00:19:51,000 GALLANTRY AND EXTRAORDINARY 696 00:19:51,001 --> 00:19:55,000 INTREPIDITY AS A MEMBER OF THE 697 00:19:55,001 --> 00:19:58,000 COMPANY A 229 ASSAULT HELICOPTER 698 00:19:58,001 --> 00:19:59,000 BATTALION FIRST CAV DIVISION. 699 00:19:59,001 --> 00:20:02,000 SPECIFICALLY AS A FLIGHT LEADER 700 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,000 AND SECOND IN COMMAND OF A 16 701 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:06,000 HELICOPTER LIFT UNIT, THEN CAPTAIN FREEMAN SUPPORTED A 702 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:09,000 HEAVILY ENGAGED AMERICAN 703 00:20:09,001 --> 00:20:10,000 BATTALION AT THE LANDING ZONE IN 704 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:13,000 THE VALLEY. 705 00:20:13,001 --> 00:20:15,000 BY FLYING HIS UNARMED HELICOPTER 706 00:20:15,001 --> 00:20:18,000 THROUGH A GAUNTLET OF ENEMY 707 00:20:18,001 --> 00:20:20,000 FIRE, TIME AFTER TIME DELIVERING 708 00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:21,000 CRITICALLY NEEDED AMMUNITION, 709 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:24,000 WATER, AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO 710 00:20:24,001 --> 00:20:26,000 THE BESIEGED BATTALION. 711 00:20:26,001 --> 00:20:27,000 ADDITIONALLY HE FLEW 14 SEPARATE 712 00:20:27,001 --> 00:20:29,000 RESCUE MISSIONS WHICH RESULTED 713 00:20:29,001 --> 00:20:32,000 IN THE LIFESAVING EVACUATION OF 714 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:36,000 AN ESTIMATED 30 SERIOUSLY WOUNDED SOLDIERS. 715 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:38,000 HIS MEDAL OF HONOR CITATION GOES 716 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:41,000 TO NOTE, THIS IS A QUOTE, HIS 717 00:20:41,001 --> 00:20:45,000 SELFLESS ACTS OF GREAT VALOR, 718 00:20:45,001 --> 00:20:47,000 EXTRAORDINARY PERSEVERANCE, AND 719 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:49,000 INTEPIDITY WERE FAR AND ABOVE 720 00:20:49,001 --> 00:20:50,000 AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY OR 721 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:52,000 MISSION AND SENT A GREAT EXAMPLE 722 00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:53,000 OF LEADERSHIP AND COURAGE FOR 723 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:57,000 ALL HIS PEERS. 724 00:20:57,001 --> 00:20:59,000 MAJOR FREEMAN'S HEROIC ACTS IN 725 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:01,000 THE VALLEY WERE SUBSEQUENTLY 726 00:21:01,001 --> 00:21:04,000 IMMORTALIZED IN THE MEL GIBSON 727 00:21:04,001 --> 00:21:06,000 FI "WE WERE SOLDIERS." 728 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:08,000 WHILE HE RETIREDROM THE 729 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:10,000 MILITARY IN 1967 AND MOVED TO 730 00:21:10,001 --> 00:21:12,000 IDAHO WITH HIS WIFE AND SONS, 731 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:13,000 MAJOR FREEMAN DID NOT GIVE UP FLYING. 732 00:21:13,001 --> 00:21:15,000 AS HE WENT TO WORK FOR THE 733 00:21:15,001 --> 00:21:17,000 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR'S 734 00:21:17,001 --> 00:21:18,000 OFFICE OF AIRCRAFT SERVICES, 735 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,000 UPON HIS OFFICIAL RETIREMENT IN 736 00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:23,000 1991, MAJOR FREEMAN HAD LOGGED 737 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:25,000 MORE THAN 25,000 HOURS OF FLYING 738 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:26,000 TIME. 739 00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:27,000 REGRETTABLY HE PASSED AWAY IN 740 00:21:27,001 --> 00:21:29,000 AUGUST OF LAST YEAR AT THE AGE 741 00:21:29,001 --> 00:21:31,000 OF 80. 742 00:21:31,001 --> 00:21:33,000 MR. SPEAKER, LET US HONOR MAJOR 743 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:34,000 FREEMAN AND HIS SERVICE TO OUR 744 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:35,000 COUNTRY THROUGH THE PASSAGE OF 745 00:21:35,001 --> 00:21:37,000 THIS LEGISLATION. 746 00:21:37,001 --> 00:21:40,000 I URGE MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 747 00:21:40,001 --> 00:21:41,000 IN PASSING H.R. 1284 AND 748 00:21:41,001 --> 00:21:44,000 DEDICATING THE MCLAIN POST 749 00:21:44,001 --> 00:21:45,000 OFFICE AFTER THIS DISTINGUISHED VETERAN. 750 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:47,000 I CONTINUE TO RESERVE THE 751 00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:48,000 BALANCE OF OUR TIME. 752 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 753 00:21:49,001 --> 00:21:50,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS RESERVES HIS TIME. 754 00:21:50,001 --> 00:21:52,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. ISSA. 755 00:21:52,001 --> 00:21:53,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 756 00:21:53,001 --> 00:21:54,000 MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY 757 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:55,000 CONSUME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 758 00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:56,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR AS 759 00:21:56,001 --> 00:21:57,000 MUCH TIME AS HE MAY CONSUME. 760 00:21:57,001 --> 00:22:00,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, I RISE IN 761 00:22:00,001 --> 00:22:02,000 STRONG SUPPORT OF H.R. 1284, TO 762 00:22:02,001 --> 00:22:04,000 DESIGNATE THE FACILITY OF THE 763 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:09,000 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE 764 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:11,000 LOCATED AT 103 WEST 765 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:15,000 IN MCLAIN, MISSISSIPPI, AS THE 766 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:18,000 MAJOR ED W. FREEMAN POST OFFICE. 767 00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:20,000 MAJOR FREEMAN PERHAPS BALANCES 768 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:23,000 THE THREE INITIATIVES HERE TODAY. 769 00:22:23,001 --> 00:22:26,000 A YOUNG SOLDIER, A YOUNG 770 00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:29,000 INSPIRATIONAL YOUNG MAN WHO DIED 771 00:22:29,001 --> 00:22:31,000 FAR TOO YOUNG OF CANCER, AND 772 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:32,000 THIRDLY, A MAN WHO LIVED A FULL 773 00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:34,000 AND COMPLETE LIFE BUT WHO GAVE 774 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:37,000 AND GAVE AND GAVE. 775 00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:40,000 MAJOR FREEMAN WAS BORN ON 776 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:41,000 NOVEMBER 20 OF 1927 IN 777 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:42,000 MISSISSIPPI. 778 00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:44,000 BEFORE GRADUATING FROM HIGH 779 00:22:44,001 --> 00:22:47,000 SCHOOL AS MANY OF 780 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:48,000 OFTEN CALLED AMERICA'S FINEST 781 00:22:48,001 --> 00:22:51,000 GENERATION, YOUNG FREEMAN 782 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:53,000 ENLISTED IN THE NAVY AND SERVED 783 00:22:53,001 --> 00:22:54,000 TWO YEARS BEFORE RETURNING HOME 784 00:22:54,001 --> 00:22:56,000 TO MISSISSIPPI GRADUATING FROM 785 00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:57,000 HIGH SCHOOL AND DECIDING TO 786 00:22:57,001 --> 00:23:00,000 RETURN TO THE MILITARY, THIS 787 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:03,000 TIME TO THE ARMY. 788 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:05,000 DURING THE KOREAN WAR, ED 789 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:08,000 FREEMAN ROSE TO THE RANK OF 790 00:23:08,001 --> 00:23:11,000 MASTER SERGEANT IN AN ARMY 791 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:13,000 ENGINEER UNIT AND 792 00:23:13,001 --> 00:23:15,000 BATTLES IN MANY PLACES, 793 00:23:15,001 --> 00:23:16,000 INCLUDING THE BATTLE 794 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:19,000 IMMORTALIZED AS PORK CHOP HILL. 795 00:23:19,001 --> 00:23:20,000 AND IT WAS THEN AWARDED A 796 00:23:20,001 --> 00:23:23,000 BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION. 797 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:25,000 AS WAS EARLIER MENTIONED, MAJOR 798 00:23:25,001 --> 00:23:27,000 FREEMAN WAS TOO TALL TO BE 799 00:23:27,001 --> 00:23:29,000 INITIALLY ALLOWED TO BE A PILOT. 800 00:23:29,001 --> 00:23:31,000 AT 6'4", HE WAS CERTAINLY A BIG 801 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:32,000 TARGET FOR THE INFANTRY, I MIGHT 802 00:23:32,001 --> 00:23:34,000 SAY, TOO. 803 00:23:34,001 --> 00:23:35,000 BUT IN FACT WITH HIS 804 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:39,000 PERSEVERANCE HE EVENTUALLY 805 00:23:39,001 --> 00:23:41,000 ATTENDED FLIGHT SCHOOL WHEN THE 806 00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:43,000 REGULATION CHANGED IN 195. 807 00:23:43,001 --> 00:23:44,000 BUT HE KEPT THAT NICKNAME, TOO 808 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:47,000 TALL FREEMAN, CARRIED IT THROUGH 809 00:23:47,001 --> 00:23:49,000 THE REST OF HIS MILITARY CAREER. 810 00:23:49,001 --> 00:23:52,000 AFTER WINNING HIS WINGS, MAJOR 811 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:55,000 FREEMAN BEGAN TO FLY FIXED WING 812 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:57,000 AIRCRAFT AND LATER SWITCHED TO HELICOPTERS. 813 00:23:57,001 --> 00:24:00,000 IN 1965 HE WAS SENT TO VIETNAM 814 00:24:00,001 --> 00:24:03,000 AND SERVED IN COMPANY A, 229TH 815 00:24:03,001 --> 00:24:06,000 ASSAULT HELICOPTER 816 00:24:06,001 --> 00:24:09,000 THE FAMOUS FIERCE CAVALRY DIVISION. 817 00:24:09,001 --> 00:24:12,000 ON NOVEMBER 14, 1965, MAJOR 818 00:24:12,001 --> 00:24:16,000 FREEMAN'S HELICOPTER CARRIED A 819 00:24:16,001 --> 00:24:19,000 BATTALION INTO BATTLE IN THE 820 00:24:19,001 --> 00:24:21,000 VALLEY WHERE HE BECAME THE FIRST 821 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:23,000 -- WHICH BECAME THE FIRST MAJOR 822 00:24:23,001 --> 00:24:26,000 CONFRONTATION OF LARGE FORCES, 823 00:24:26,001 --> 00:24:27,000 U.S. FORCES TO MEET NORTH 824 00:24:27,001 --> 00:24:30,000 VIETNAMESE REGULARS. 825 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:34,000 FOR THAT HE RECEIVED EVENTUALLY 826 00:24:34,001 --> 00:24:36,000 A MEDAL OF HONOR, BYE -- BUT HE 827 00:24:36,001 --> 00:24:39,000 RECEIVED -- FOR THAT HE RECEIVED 828 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:40,000 A NUMBER OF 829 00:24:40,001 --> 00:24:44,000 HIS WILLINGNESS TO FLY INTO THE 830 00:24:44,001 --> 00:24:46,000 FACE 831 00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:48,000 DEALING WITH CASUALTIES GOING IN 832 00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:50,000 AND OUT AND RUNNING LOW ON 833 00:24:50,001 --> 00:24:52,000 SUPPLIES AND FUEL. 834 00:24:52,001 --> 00:24:54,000 HE -- MAJOR FREEMAN VOLUNTEERED 835 00:24:54,001 --> 00:24:57,000 TO FLY INTO THE BATTLE AREA 836 00:24:57,001 --> 00:24:59,000 RISKING HIS OWN LIFE DELIVERING 837 00:24:59,001 --> 00:25:01,000 CRITICALLY NEEDED AMMUNITION, 838 00:25:01,001 --> 00:25:02,000 WATER, MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO A 839 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,000 BATTALION ON THE GROUND. 840 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:06,000 IN ALL MAJOR FREEMAN CARRIED OUT 841 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:09,000 14 842 00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:11,000 FOR THESE ACTIONS, MAJOR FREEMAN 843 00:25:11,001 --> 00:25:14,000 WAS ARDED THE CONGRESSIONAL 844 00:25:14,001 --> 00:25:15,000 MED A.F.L. HONOR ON JULY 16, 845 00:25:15,001 --> 00:25:16,000 2001, BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. 846 00:25:16,001 --> 00:25:18,000 BUSH. 847 00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:20,000 A FEW MONTHS LATER, MAJOR 848 00:25:20,001 --> 00:25:23,000 FREEMAN VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE 849 00:25:23,001 --> 00:25:26,000 AGAIN FOR THE PREMIERE OF, "WE 850 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:28,000 WERE SOLDIERS" A 2002 FEATURE 851 00:25:28,001 --> 00:25:30,000 FILM THAT DEPICTED HIS ROLE IN 852 00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:32,000 THAT BATTLE THAT DAY. 853 00:25:32,001 --> 00:25:35,000 WE WILL MISS TOO TALL. 854 00:25:35,001 --> 00:25:39,000 WE WILL MISS HIS GENERATION. 855 00:25:39,001 --> 00:25:42,000 NOW MR. FREEMAN DIED IN BOISE, 856 00:25:42,001 --> 00:25:44,000 IDAHO, ON AUGUST 20, 2008, FROM 857 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:46,000 COMPLICATIONS OF PARKINSON'S 858 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:49,000 DISEASE AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS 859 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:51,000 WIFE OF 54 YEARS AND HIS SONS, 860 00:25:51,001 --> 00:25:53,000 MIKE AND DOUG. 861 00:25:53,001 --> 00:25:55,000 MR. SPEAKER, NAMING A 862 00:25:55,001 --> 00:25:56,000 OFFICE AFTER A MAN WHO GAVE AND 863 00:25:56,001 --> 00:25:59,000 GAVE AND GAVE TO HIS COUNTRY THE 864 00:25:59,001 --> 00:26:02,000 WAY MAJOR FREEMAN DID IS LITTLE 865 00:26:02,001 --> 00:26:05,000 ENOUGH TO DO, BUT TODAY 866 00:26:05,001 --> 00:26:06,000 RECOGNIZING HIS LIFE AND 867 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:08,000 CONTRIBUTION, TOO, IS LITTLE 868 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:09,000 ENOUGH TO DO F ONE OF THE LAST 869 00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:10,000 OF AMERICA'S FINEST GENERATION. 870 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:12,000 WITH THAT I RESERVE THE BALANCE 871 00:26:12,001 --> 00:26:13,000 OF MY TIME. 872 00:26:13,001 --> 00:26:14,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 873 00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:15,000 RESERVES THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 874 00:26:15,001 --> 00:26:16,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 875 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:19,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, AT THIS 876 00:26:19,001 --> 00:26:22,000 POINT I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE 877 00:26:22,001 --> 00:26:23,000 LEAD SPONSOR OF THIS RESOLUTION, 878 00:26:23,001 --> 00:26:24,000 MR. TAYLOR, FROM MISSISSIPPI. 879 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 880 00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:26,000 GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI, MR. 881 00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:28,000 TAYLOR, IS RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE 882 00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:30,000 MINUTES. 883 00:26:30,001 --> 00:26:31,000 MR. TAYLOR: I WANT TO THANK THE 884 00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:32,000 GENTLEMEN FROM MASSACHUSETTS AND 885 00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:33,000 CALIFORNIA FOR THEIR TIMELY 886 00:26:33,001 --> 00:26:35,000 CONSIDERATION OF THIS. 887 00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:36,000 I WANT TO THANK ALL THE MEMBERS 888 00:26:36,001 --> 00:26:39,000 OF THE MISSISSIPPI HOUSE 889 00:26:39,001 --> 00:26:40,000 DELEGATION FOR CO-SPONSORING IT. 890 00:26:40,001 --> 00:26:41,000 GENTLEMEN, THERE REALLY ISN'T 891 00:26:41,001 --> 00:26:42,000 ANYTHING THAT REMAINS TO BE 892 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:44,000 SAID. 893 00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:45,000 I THINK YOU DID A PHENOMENAL JOB 894 00:26:45,001 --> 00:26:47,000 EVER HONORING ED FREEMAN'S LIFE. 895 00:26:47,001 --> 00:26:51,000 THE ONLY THING I WOULD ASK IS 896 00:26:51,001 --> 00:26:53,000 BE INCLUDED IN THE CONGRESSIONAL 897 00:26:53,001 --> 00:26:54,000 RECORD WITHOUT OBJECTION. 898 00:26:54,001 --> 00:26:55,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 899 00:26:55,001 --> 00:26:56,000 MR. TAYLOR: THANK YOU VERY MUCH 900 00:26:56,001 --> 00:26:57,000 FOR THE TIME AND CONSIDERATION. 901 00:26:57,001 --> 00:26:58,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI 902 00:26:58,001 --> 00:26:59,000 YIELDS BACK HIS TIME. 903 00:26:59,001 --> 00:27:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS 904 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:01,000 RESERVES THE BALCE OF HI TIME. 905 00:27:01,001 --> 00:27:03,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 906 00:27:03,001 --> 00:27:06,000 MR. ISSA: MR. SPEAKER, IN 907 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:09,000 CLOSING I WOULD URGE THE PASSAGE 908 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:13,000 OF H.R. 1284, RECOGNIZING A 909 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:15,000 MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER A. GREAT 910 00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:16,000 AMERICAN, ONE -- WINNER, A GREAT 911 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:17,000 AMERICAN, ONE WHO HAS LIVED A 912 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,000 LONG LIFE AND CONTRIBUTE ADD 913 00:27:19,001 --> 00:27:20,000 GREAT DEAL TO OUR COUNTRY. 914 00:27:20,001 --> 00:27:22,000 AGAIN URGING SUPPORT FOR 1284. 915 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:23,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 916 00:27:23,001 --> 00:27:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA YIDS 917 00:27:24,001 --> 00:27:26,000 BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 918 00:27:26,001 --> 00:27:27,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 919 00:27:27,001 --> 00:27:30,000 MR. LYNCH: AGAIN I SIMPLY URGE 920 00:27:30,001 --> 00:27:32,000 -- I WANT TO THANK MR. TAYLOR 921 00:27:32,001 --> 00:27:34,000 FROM MISSISSIPPI AND I AGAIN 922 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:36,000 WANT TO URGE ALL MEMBERS TO 923 00:27:36,001 --> 00:27:37,000 SUPPORT H.R. 1284. I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 924 00:27:37,001 --> 00:27:38,000 TIME. 925 00:27:38,001 --> 00:27:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ALL 926 00:27:39,001 --> 00:27:40,000 TIME HAVING BEEN YIELDED BACK, 927 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:43,000 THE QUESTION IS WILL THE HOUSE 928 00:27:43,001 --> 00:27:44,000 SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1284. 929 00:27:44,001 --> 00:27:47,000 SO MANY AS ARE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 930 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:48,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 931 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:49,000 IN THE OPINION OF THE CHAIR, 2/3 932 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:50,000 OF THOSE VOTING HAVING RESPONDED 933 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:51,000 IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, THE RULES 934 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:52,000 ARE SUSPENDED, THE BILL IS PASSED, AND WITHOUT OBJECTION 935 00:27:52,001 --> 00:27:54,000 THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER IS LAID 936 00:27:54,001 --> 00:27:55,000 UPON THE TABLE. 937 00:27:55,001 --> 00:27:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 938 00:27:57,001 --> 00:27:58,000 MR. LYNCH: MR. SPEAKER, QUI THE YEAS AND NAYS. 939 00:27:58,001 --> 00:27:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 940 00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:00,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 941 00:28:00,001 --> 00:28:01,000 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF TAKING THIS VOTE BY THE YEAS AND NAYS 942 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:04,000 WILL RISE AND REMAIN STANDING 943 00:28:04,001 --> 00:28:05,000 UNTIL COUNTED. A SUFFICIENT NUMBER HAVING 944 00:28:05,001 --> 00:28:06,000 ARISEN, THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE 945 00:28:06,001 --> 00:28:07,000 ORDERED. 946 00:28:07,001 --> 00:28:08,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 8 OF RULE 20 947 00:28:08,001 --> 00:28:09,000 AND THE CHAIR'S PRIOR 948 00:28:09,001 --> 00:28:10,000 ANNOUNCEMENT, FURTHER 949 00:28:10,001 --> 00:28:22,000 PROCEEDINGS ON THIS MOTION WILL 950 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:23,000 BE POSTPONED. 951 00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:25,000 PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 12-A OF RULE 952 00:28:25,001 --> 00:28:27,000 1, THE CHAIR DECLARES THE HOUSE 953 00:28:27,001 --> 00:28:27,000 IN RECESS UNTIL APPROXIMATELY