Spencer Cox: “I want to join with this distinguished group of Members on both sides of the aisle in paying tribute to my friend and…”

“I want to join with this distinguished group of Members on both sides of the aisle in paying tribute to my friend and our colleague, this great national leader from Southern California, Ron Packard. There are many to tell about a man whose time here in Congress has done so much to improve our national life and to improve this institution. Ron and Jean and their seven children and their 34 grandchildren are a family that the Packards have made us all feel a part of. I have met some, but not all of the Packard family. But the family members that I have been introduced to and I have met are fine men and women that say a lot about Ron and Jean. I know from the task of being a father what a measure of our own worth that is. That is one and only one, a big one, area of Ron's life in which he has set an example for the rest of us.”