Bob Latta: “I thank the gentleman for yielding and also for having this Special Order tonight. We heard Dad's time down here as 30…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding and also for having this Special Order tonight. We heard Dad's time down here as 30 years, and I must have to also mention that was 30 years in the minority. He never served 1 day in the majority the whole time he was here. When he was elected in 1958, he served on the Ag Committee, and then went to the Rules Committee. In 1974, Gerald Ford put him on the Judiciary Committee during Watergate, a committee he did not want to serve on, but then he went on to serve as the ranking member on the Budget Committee until his retirement along with being on the Rules Committee. If I could just in the remaining time talk a little about Dad because a lot of people know about his work here, but also I think it is important to know that he was one of those they call the greatest generation. His younger brother, Lester Latta, was asked by his son what it was like when they were growing up, and my uncle had said that they didn't have much, but there were a lot of other people they knew that didn't have as much as they did. He grew up in a small town in McComb, Ohio, which had 1,600 people, which it is today. My grandfather was a barber, sold insurance, and was an auctioneer. He did anything he could to keep six kids going during the Depression. My grandmother wallpapered and did everything else and raised a family. Dad was the first to graduate from high school in his family, the first to even go to college.…”