Gregory Laughlin: “I want to thank the dean of my delegation for taking out this special order and must confess that during the service of…”

“I want to thank the dean of my delegation for taking out this special order and must confess that during the service of Sam Hall, Jr. As a U.S. Congressman representing the First District of Texas, I did not have the privilege or honor of knowing Sam in that capacity. It was after he went to the Federal bench that I was elected to Congress and it was in the capacity of my service in the House and his service on the Federal bench that I came to know Judge Hall. On those occasions it occurred that when he would be there visiting, he would talk about how he missed his colleagues in the House, he missed service in the House. But my respect for him grew immensely while on several occasions, a man of his position and many think of Federal judges as not too caring and too preoccupied with the importance of their office to care about little people, but on more than one occasion Judge Hall called me seeking my assistance of young teenage boys and girls in my district who needed a good word, who needed assistance from me because they lived in my district.”