[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 83 (Friday, May 30, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H5059]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL ROBERT PAPP, JR., AND COMMANDANT PAUL F. ZUKUNFT

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to congratulate the 
service of retiring Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., the Commandant of the 
Coast Guard, and to acknowledge the coming on board, if you will, of 
Commandant Paul F. Zukunft; to thank them for their collective service 
and to acknowledge Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., for his commitment to a 
rising and excelling United States Coast Guard.
  In every hearing that the Coast Guard appears before us, as a member 
of the Homeland Security Committee and a ranking member on Border 
Security and Maritime Security, I acknowledge that sight of Coast Guard 
helicopters rescuing thousands during Hurricane Katrina, plucking them 
out of the raging waters and saving lives. Many people don't remember 
1,000 died.
  Today, that ceremony is occurring. I pay tribute to them, and I hope 
that many of us will have the opportunity to congratulate both of them.
  Thank you for your service to this Nation. You are remembered.

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