Norma Torres: “I am honored today to join with the Texas delegation and my other colleagues in honoring Frank Tejeda for his years of…”

“I am honored today to join with the Texas delegation and my other colleagues in honoring Frank Tejeda for his years of service and dedication to our Nation. As we have heard, Frank Tejeda lived a life of hard work. He worked hard for his constituents of Texas. He worked hard as a member of the Marines. He worked hard in school. His accomplishments indeed include a law degree from UC-Berkeley and two more postgraduate degrees from Yale and Harvard. Indeed this is commendable for a young man who early in life left school, disenchanted with some of the problems that had beset him as a young man. Some of his counselors, as I have read the record, called him just a trouble-making Mexican. Well, Frank proved them wrong. I had the privilege to serve with Frank and understand him. He was not driven to prove to others that he could do something. He was driven by his own desire to do something. Whether it was bringing technology into the rural areas of his district or providing urban San Antonio with new community development opportunities, Frank made it happen.”