John Shimkus: “Mr. Speaker, congratulations to all the pages. They have been such a source of inspiration to all of us, their coming at…”

“Mr. Speaker, congratulations to all the pages. They have been such a source of inspiration to all of us, their coming at the most critical time that our country has been faced with. And not one time did they deter from doing the duties of a page. Of course I have a page here, Taurean Snow, who came from my district; and he came for one semester and asked to see if he could serve a second semester. I was happy that he chose to do that. But I join with the gentleman from Arizona in saying that you will now be ambassadors, ambassadors to take what you have learned here. This is like a civics class for you, a class that far too few are in our schools now, teaching you what government is all about. This particular experience will be with you always, because you will remember the times that you have had to run the corridors to bring flags to our offices, or you have been on the floor and have had to bring messages to us. And so those types of experiences, coupled with your hearing us argue on the floor about different issues, will be with you, and you can go back and tell your friends just what you have learned from this House.”