Blake Moore: “to close, I again thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Rivas) for yielding a few more minutes to finish out these…”

“to close, I again thank the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Rivas) for yielding a few more minutes to finish out these thoughts in Doug's memory. Mr. Speaker, I will wanted to give a quick closing message to his wife, Jill, and his four children: Kyle, Allison, Sophia, and Natalie. I get an hour every week to do these floor messages. I am lucky to get five Members to come. I try to fill up 20 minutes, 15 of which your dad would actually take. He would go on and on. I would try to get him to wrap up so I could go to dinner. He was always there for me. Tonight, we ran over time with the amount of people who wanted to come and take time out of their very busy schedules to come and share a brief message. They sat for an hour to spend 60 seconds to reflect on your dad and your husband. I hope you can take from that some sense of appreciation and connection that we all have with your dad and what an amazing man he is.”