Peter Blute: “The gentleman would yield, and I think he is right on target here. It is not just the history. It is the actual…”

“The gentleman would yield, and I think he is right on target here. It is not just the history. It is the actual individuals who serve here. I have been shocked in my 4 years to see the quality of the individual, but also some of the histories are fascinating. For example, the guy in the office next to me is Sam Johnson from Dallas, TX, who is an American hero. And then to think that he spent 7 years of his life for his fellow citizens in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp, the Hanoi Hilton, facing torture and abuse and solitary confinement for 2 years. Now that is incredible. Mr. Speaker, but then we look over on the Democratic side and see someone like Sam Gibbons, who landed at D-day, and that was a long time ago. I have read about it in the history books, but to be able to sit next to someone and perhaps engage in a conversation about, boy, what was that like? I mean, this is an incredible place. John Lewis marched with Martin Luther King.”