Sam Graves: “I don't have any other speakers. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time…”

“I don't have any other speakers. I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeFAZIO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I would just take this time to thank a few folks for this epic legislation, the transformative 21st century transportation bill and, of course, for things from other committees that we have explained during the debate: Helena Zyblikewycz, my chief counsel on highways and transit, incredible yeoman's work; Auke Mahar-Piersma, who took over rail; Garrett Gee; Jackie Schmitz; Brittany Lundberg, from my hometown; Chris Bell; Andrea Wohleber; Katherine Ambrose; Alice Koethe; Kathy Dedrick; Mohsin Syed, our committee counsel; Jill Harrelson; Maddy Pike; Edward McGlone; Michael Hudspith; Jamie Harrell; and many more on other subcommittees. I am just going to return to Kathy Dedrick for a moment. I do this sometimes; it always embarrasses her. We used to have a program here called the page program. I thought it was a great thing. A lot of pages went on, a number, to becomes Members of Congress or to come back and work in government service. Kathy was my first congressional page, obviously, a few years ago. She is from Lebanon, Oregon. She came back later and worked for me when we did the SAFETEA-LU bill, a few years ago, as my designated person when I chaired the Highways Subcommittee--I mean, when I was ranking member on the Highways Subcommittee. She worked for Al Gore. She worked downtown.…”