Sam Farr: “Thank you very much for yielding and being chair of the California Democratic delegation, the largest single delegation…”

“Thank you very much for yielding and being chair of the California Democratic delegation, the largest single delegation in the United States Congress, with its champions of note, George Miller and Henry Waxman. This is a historical room and this is a historical moment, and that is why it is being recorded and being covered by C-SPAN. This room is historic in that the leaders of the world come to speak here to joint sessions of Congress. We are every day surrounded by the reliefs on the walls here of 23 of the greatest lawgivers in the history of the world, and we are reminded that one person can make a difference. Tonight, we honor two people, each who have made one hell of a difference. I don't think that I have ever met--and my contacts with these two gentlemen goes way back with George Miller when he was 9 years old. He was the pudgy little kid and I was the tall skinny kid. Now I am the pudgy little kid and he is the tall skinny kid. But he had a dedication for the out-of-doors. We went camping, fishing, and skiing. Our fathers, who were both State senators, introduced us to politics at the State level, and both of us ended up as staff members in the California State legislature, where, in 1968, Henry Waxman was elected.…”