Ted Poe: “I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, Judge Carter points out something that happened to Sam Johnson during that 7 years…”

“I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, Judge Carter points out something that happened to Sam Johnson during that 7 years that a lot of people don't realize. When he was in that little cell, 3-foot by 9-foot, he was so obstinate, the North Vietnamese Army would take him out of the cell; they would beat him up. He would never break. They would get so mad at that, that he wouldn't break, that they would line him up against the wall and they would tell him they're going to shoot him. They would blindfold him. They would get their AK-47s ready and, as Judge Carter mentioned, they would pull the trigger--click, click, click--then they would laugh at him. Sam Johnson would say, ``Is that the best you got? Is that the best you got?'' He didn't take anything from the Vietnamese, even though they tried to do everything they could to break him down. That's what makes him so remarkable. You may notice, Mr. Speaker, he's sitting back here on our scriptural row. All the Texans sit on the same row. He sits in the middle. One reason we sit back there is because that's the row he picks. So we all sit next to him. And you'll see every day when the House is in session, the Texans, we're all together sitting around Sam Johnson. We kind of stick together for a lot of reasons. I now yield to the gentleman from Texas, Dr. Michael Burgess.”