Mike Pence: “I rise to mourn with those who mourn, and grieve with those who grieve, with gratitude for my colleague the gentleman…”

“I rise to mourn with those who mourn, and grieve with those who grieve, with gratitude for my colleague the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hill) for his swift and decisive leadership in moving this important legislation honoring a great public servant, Frank McCloskey, to the floor of the Congress of the United States. When Frank McCloskey breathed his last this Sunday, Indiana lost a leader, but as we have heard again and again from colleagues who served with him and those who simply admired his work from afar, the world community most certainly lost a champion of justice. Congressman Frank McCloskey was a man of courage, courage he demonstrated very recently in his struggle with cancer, staying positive and optimistic even to the very end in all of his public statements to family and friends and neighbors. But he was also, as we have heard today, a man of genuine courage in public service. In addition to his tenacity in representing the people of southwestern Indiana during six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Frank McCloskey will long be remembered for his courage in challenging the United States to confront the genocidal aims of President Slobodan Milosevic in the Balkans.”