Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to speak for mr. Sarbanes, senator sarbanes employees. And especially for my sisterinlaw milley freeman, who worked for Paul Sarbanes from december of 1989 to january of 2007. And im not going to talk about all the Amazing Things about senator sarbanes that his maryland colleagues have eloquently mentioned and john, im not going to talk about fathers and sons, but my dad who served in this house and my uncle carl levin who served in the senate, both loved him very much. Andlet me talk about nellie his
Mr. Rigell hello, grand rapids. Wow, what a crowd. Than are more people here when donald trump was inaugurated. That will be the first and last time that happens for him. Because we have a president coming that you will meet today that we will elect that will carry michigan on tuesday with your help, and his name is Bernie Sanders. [cheers] i want to thank you for electing me three times to the United States senate, to help lead the fight for jobs and for the middle class. And it is very good to be back here. I also want to thank you for something else, that is my wife graduate of now a grand rapids university. How lucky am i . Anybody here from a union family, the uaw . We lost a great champion a few weeks ago. He will be familiar to some of you. He gave great leadership and came right from here. I am sure he is upstairs watching, because he was a fighter for justice. We just need to keep him in mind, keep his example in mind. A wonderfulrs has Bumper Sticker that sort of says it all
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Im chairman kilmer. Im excited to be here the first day of the new year. We had an incredibly productive last year with 45 recommendations to make congress more effective and officiate so it can better serve the American People. Im proud of what we accomplished as a committee so far and equally proud how we accomplished our Work Together. Every member of this committee has been fully engaged in the committees work and taken realtime to think about the issues in our mandate and their own perspectives and really listen and consider their colleagues perspective. This committee has worked because theyre finding Collaborative Solutions to the challenges this institution faces. The key word here is invested. Whether were talking about businesses or organizations or governments depend on people invested in the work that theyre doing and thats fundamental. Successful institutions also invest in themselves, their employees, infrastructure, overall Work Environment and experience. They think and
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