Ted Poe: “I thank you for yielding. I won't take all of your time. You and I, our careers have mirrored. We both became lawyers…”

“I thank you for yielding. I won't take all of your time. You and I, our careers have mirrored. We both became lawyers the same year, and we both started at the courthouse in Houston I think the same year--'73, '74, right in there. Of course, you were on one side, the defendant side, and I was on the prosecution side. We worked before the same judges. You and I both became judges about the same time and then we left the bench at the same time and ran for Congress and joined Mr. Fortenberry in the infamous class of 2004 or '5. I do want to make this comment that things at the courthouse during all that time changed a great deal as to who was at the courthouse in the courtroom representing either the State of Texas or the citizen accused, as you referred to him. Were you the first African American to practice in the courtroom? Or was it Ned Wade or Ron Mock? Which one of you was it?”