On the recordOctober 22, 2013
Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, it is absolutely fitting that we take this step and name our veterans hospital on the west coast of Florida after a great American, a patriot, a hero for our veterans-- Bill Young. Probably more than anyone in the House of Representatives or Congress, I have known Bill Young, I think, longer. He and I were both aides to the first Republican Congressman since the Civil War, Bill Kramer. He was an aide before I was, but we met and worked together more than 40 years ago. So I rise tonight not only as a colleague, but as a personal friend and political ally of a great human being, someone who put his heart and soul into his position, who loved our servicemen and -women, and his great legacy will be all he has done to honor their memory. Tonight, we honor his memory with renaming Bay Pines veterans hospital for Bill Young, my friend.
