Andre Carson: “I wanted to run to the floor when I saw that this was under way to give my own personal and special tribute to the…”

“I wanted to run to the floor when I saw that this was under way to give my own personal and special tribute to the Honorable Tony Hall, who has had now a higher calling, one of ambassador to the United Nations for Food and Agricultural Agencies, all the way in Rome. What a beautiful place to be, in Rome. I have not known the Honorable Tony Hall for as long as many of you have, and certainly do not hail from the same State from which he is elected; but Tony Hall has the kind of spirit that radiates across boundary lines, geographical lines, State lines. When you understand Tony Hall, the genuine spirit that he emits, knowing that he has reverence for the world's hungry and for food safety around the world, you cannot help but consider him a comrade, a colleague, regardless of the State from which he hails. Tony Hall is willing to make this sacrifice, to give up a very safe seat in the United States House of Representatives, to go on to what I consider, Tony, to be a higher calling, but a much more important calling.”