Darlene Hooley: “Mr. Speaker, as you can hear from all of our colleagues, Walter Capps, Congressman Walter Capps, was a wonderful person.…”

“Mr. Speaker, as you can hear from all of our colleagues, Walter Capps, Congressman Walter Capps, was a wonderful person. Again, I am a freshman, and I can remember meeting him for the first time during orientation. I was scared during those days, because it was the first time that I had come here to try and work and do the people's work, and I remember sitting next to Walter, and he kind of saw me shaking and said, ``Are you okay?'' I said I don't know. I hope I can do this job. And he goes, Carolyn, you got here. You will do it, and you will do it fine. Well, we are here almost 11 months and Walter had become my teacher, and for that I thank him. I loved walking from the halls to here while we would talk about what was going on in our lives and what was going on back in our district. For those things, I thank him for very deeply. The one thing about Walter, he was a quiet man, but he was a giant. We have had a lot of extremely important people here, and more important people will come and do great things. Walter would have been one of those people. We will never know. Yesterday, I was going over my desk and I saw that I had signed on on a bill with Walter, because he was always working to try to make life better for people. I think all of our colleagues will work to make sure his name is on that bill and that bill will pass.”