James Davis: “I would like to rise and to thank Julian Dixon on behalf of myself and the community I represent in Tampa, Florida, and…”

“I would like to rise and to thank Julian Dixon on behalf of myself and the community I represent in Tampa, Florida, and also to provide a further glimpse as to this really remarkable man that so many of us served with. I got to know Julian as really a relatively new Member here. He did not really know me from Adam, and I came to him with a very serious national security issue, and he treated me like someone that he had known for years and who had earned his respect, which I had not. I will never forget that. That is rare around here. It is rare most everywhere. I got a chance to watch him in action working with the Attorney General and working with Republicans and Democrats and members of the senior executive branch around here, and it was like a knife through butter. He had earned respect. He knew how to talk to people. He had earned the trust of so many people that depended upon him for his honest judgment. It is so easy to be cynical today in this particular time as we work through a very difficult presidential election and we begin to work through a very difficult political environment up here, but I think if the people I represent could see people like Julian Dixon in action here, making the difficult choices for the right reasons, I think it would reaffirm their faith in this institution and the mere people that serve here. I am proud to have known Julian Dixon and to have served with him.…”