James Traficant: “Mr. Speaker, I knew Dick Cheney and served with Dick Cheney and am proud to be here today associated with this honor…”

“Mr. Speaker, I knew Dick Cheney and served with Dick Cheney and am proud to be here today associated with this honor being paid to the former Secretary of Defense. I would just like to say that under his stewardship and leadership, two of the largest, most recent military campaigns, and, I might add, most successful, perhaps, in our recent history, that was Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East, were under his stewardship. His leadership was not only positive but powerful for all of us that knew him. When he said something, he meant it. Everybody recognized that, no one debated it, and no one had to argue the point. He was well liked. In addition to this stern, strong leadership, he possessed a genuine sense of humor and did much to advance the Armed Services of the United States of America, and everyone who worked with him and interacted with him not only respected him, they liked him very much. So I want to just join today and say that I am proud to be a part of that, proud to be able to vote on this legislation, and urge everyone to vote for it.”