[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5625]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      HONORING THE LIVING CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS

  (Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RODNEY DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, thank you for the 
opportunity to be here today. It is an honor for me, as a new Member of 
Congress, to sit here on the floor of the House with my colleagues to 
actually honor all of our living Congressional Medal of Honor 
recipients.
  I'm proud to work with my colleague, Tulsi Gabbard, from the great 
State of Hawaii, in a bipartisan way to make sure that these heroes 
that protected our freedoms, that have protected our ability to stand 
here and debate the issues that we debate every single day, are honored 
by their heroism and by their fight for this country.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, we're going to begin this process through the 1-
minutes, but we're also going to have an hour and a half of a Special 
Order that's going to be a bipartisan, unprecedented Special Order to 
honor these American heroes. And I stand here today to say thank you to 
each and every one of them.

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