Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague for yielding time. I had prepared remarks, but let me just speak from my heart. It is a beautiful gesture that this body can name a post office after our friend and colleague, Luke Letlow, in honor of his service and his dedication to his State and his community and his country, to children of God across the world. Luke was a very special man. It is a gesture to the American families from sea to shining sea, which has suffered loss, including my own. Today, we stand in support of the love of family, and we extend the heart of our Nation by naming one of our oldest institutions, a microcosm of what America is, the Postal Service. To name a post office after Luke is to honor not just his family and his wife, our colleague, Julia, but it is to honor all American families. I thank my brothers and sisters of this august body for allowing this moment where we cherish what it is to be an American, to serve our country and our fellow man, to be part of a family, and to remember those that we have lost. Mr. LaTURNER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Louisiana for his comments. I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close.”