[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 29 (Thursday, February 14, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REMEMBERING THE HON. WALTER B. JONES, JR.

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I rise tonight in memory of our friend, 
Walter Jones, congressman from North Carolina.
  Walter was a kind, gentle, sweet soul of a man, who I admired even in 
the brief time we had to serve here together.
  I found him to be a man of integrity who always put what he thought 
was right for the people of his district and this country first.
  Sometimes he had a vote he might regret, but he did everything he 
could to make that right.
  He went so far as to make the families of a fallen soldier feel that 
much more comfortable with a letter--to every one that he could 
possibly do--showing compassion and showing that at least one 
congressman knows what their pain is.
  So, to his family; his wife, Joe Anne; and his daughter Ashley; all 
his constituents and friends and neighbors in North Carolina, our 
hearts are with you at the loss of a man whose main goal was to please 
God and walk with Jesus Christ. We admire him, and we will miss him.

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