Frank Pallone: “I want to thank my colleague for those remarks. And just very briefly, if I can say as a senior Member of the Democrats…”

“I want to thank my colleague for those remarks. And just very briefly, if I can say as a senior Member of the Democrats, Don, Jr. has excelled in his own right. As was mentioned, he's been a councilman in the city of Newark for a while. He has also been a county freeholder in Essex County, New Jersey. And I could go through the long list of accomplishments that he's made himself for the city of Newark and the other towns that he now represents in the congressional district. But I do have to say your father would be so proud. He's looking down today. And you must know, for all of you who loved his dad so much, that he is very much like his father in every respect in that he respects everyone. He has the sympathy--your father always talked about simpatico, the Italian sympathy, because he grew up in the Italian section of Newark, and that's something that's shared very much by Don as well. He will be someone that you will all learn to love the way you learned to love his father. Congratulations.”