John Mica: “When citizens are elected to have the great honor of serving in Congress, there are numerous individuals who help to…”

“When citizens are elected to have the great honor of serving in Congress, there are numerous individuals who help to make that experience possible for us. Each Member of Congress has family, friends, and supporters who have worked hard and sacrificed to elect us to office and to make our system of representative government work. Today I would like to take just a few moments to honor the memory of one of my most faithful friends and supporters, Regina Frankewicz. She passed away yesterday in central Florida, and I would like to extend my very deepest sympathy to her husband, Leonard, and to her family. While Regina was not a State or national figure, she was one of those great individuals in our Nation, one of those untold heroes who indeed helped make our democratic system function. Besides being a devoted wife and mother, Regina would often roll up her sleeves, and she went to labor in the political vineyards to support her candidates and her party in an untiring fashion. Madam Speaker, I am pleased today to pay a very special tribute to the memory of my good friend, Regina Frankewicz. Without her kind, faithful, and devoted efforts, I am certain that I would not be serving in Congress. Madam Speaker, I submit if every citizen would take up their political and electoral responsibility in a manner and fashion as exemplified by Regina Frankewicz, our Nation and our communities would well be served.”