James Hill: “I think it's a true testament to how people felt about Julia Carson based upon the fact that the hour has expired…”

“I think it's a true testament to how people felt about Julia Carson based upon the fact that the hour has expired allotting time for her colleagues to get up here to say a few kind words about her and now we are in overtime and the hour is over and we still have colleagues on the House floor who want to take the time to eulogize our friend and colleague Julia Carson. I have known Julia for over 25 years. In this business of politics, you have friends and then you have allies. I can, with a great deal of assurance, tell my colleagues here that Julia was a friend, not just an ally. She was that, too. But I came from a small town in southern Indiana to the Indiana legislature back in 1982; and one of the first people I ever met was from the great city, the large city of Indianapolis, Indiana: Julia Carson. And I will be honest with you from the rural community and the kind of sheltered atmosphere of southern Indiana and small-town Indiana, I, quite frankly, didn't know how to take Julia Carson when I first met her. She was something else. But as the years went by and I had the time to serve with Julia both in the legislature and now here in Congress, I had come to love Julia Carson, a true friend. Not just a colleague, but a true friend.”