[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 13, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H1558]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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        HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF CONGRESSMAN WALTER JONES

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, I want to offer my condolences 
and prayers to my dear friend, Congressman Walter Jones, and also to 
the people of North Carolina, who lost a tireless champion.
  Throughout his time in service, Congressman Jones never lost sight of 
those he served: the families in North Carolina, people across the 
country, and, of course, our brave servicemembers around the globe.
  Congressman Jones will be remembered for his limitless compassion and 
his willingness to reach across the aisle and to find common ground.
  I worked with him on many issues over the years, but our greatest 
collaboration was on our shared effort to draw down our endless wars 
and bring our brave troops home. He was a colead on several of my 
bills, including the one to repeal the 2001 and 2002 Authorization for 
Use of Military Force to finally end our limitless wars abroad.
  It fills me with unspeakable sadness, Mr. Speaker, that Congressman 
Jones did not live to see the end of these wars, but his memory will 
live on. We will fight harder in his memory to ensure that Congress 
does its job on matters of war and peace.
  I was honored to call Congressman Jones my colleague and my friend. 
His spirit will be greatly missed in the Halls of Congress, and tonight 
I again offer my condolences to his family, his friends; and also, I 
celebrate his life, because it was truly a life well lived.

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