On the recordMay 20, 2013
I thank the gentlelady, and I thank her for mentioning our veterans. My own father left the mainland in 1945, and the first place he went was to Pearl Harbor on the Island of Oahu, in your home State, before he went into the Pacific Theater. I can't help but think that he would have wanted this very thing to have happened here in that we would actually come here and spend our time honoring the sacrifices that those men and women made and finding solutions for the American people, making the American Nation a better place to live and work, to study and grow up and excel, and to become the type of people we can become. So thank you very much for your comments today. Now I would like to yield to a good friend of mine from Illinois, a Chicago Bears fan himself, Mr. Lipinski.
