Bob Filner: “I don't know if this is the last statement that Mr. Bilirakis will make on the floor, but I just want to say how much we…”

“I don't know if this is the last statement that Mr. Bilirakis will make on the floor, but I just want to say how much we all appreciate your work. We are looking forward to another Bilirakis joining us. But your advocacy on areas such as no offsets between pension and disability that we call concurrent receipt, you kept that issue alive and made sure that we would do justice. So we want to thank you for that. And we want to thank you for the civility that you have exhibited through your whole career and especially on this committee, which sometimes especially this gentleman needed. So we hope that you have a good retirement, Mr. Bilirakis. We will be missing you, but we really appreciate your service to this committee and to this Nation.”