Jerry Nadler: “I want to join in the tribute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) tonight. The gentleman from Pennsylvania…”

“I want to join in the tribute to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Gekas) tonight. The gentleman from Pennsylvania served for 4 years as chairman of the Subcommittee on Administrative and Commercial Law; I served for those 4 years as the ranking Democratic member. Though we often disagreed and obviously we disagreed on the bill we just passed, I must comment that the gentleman from Pennsylvania conducted the subcommittee with unfailing promptness and with unfailing courtesy and consideration despite, on some occasions, considerable provocation from me. I want to pay tribute to him on this occasion. We will miss him.”