[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H5926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING H. ROSS PEROT

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, back home in Texas, 1,500 people 
gathered at the Highland Park United Methodist Church on the campus of 
SMU to honor the life and legacy of H. Ross Perot.
  We lost Mr. Perot just a little over a week ago, at the age of 89. 
Mr. Perot had an outsized influence on our State and, indeed, our 
Nation.
  Mr. Perot was remembered by his children in very touching tributes.
  Mr. Perot's accomplishments were too numerous to go into in the space 
of a 1-minute talk, but I did want to acknowledge all of the work that 
he did on behalf of the United States prisoners of war and, certainly, 
his efforts to elucidate the cause and, yes, some treatment for what 
was then known as Gulf War Syndrome.
  Mr. Perot was a driving force in that, and he should be remembered 
for all of the efforts that he put forward for our Nation's 
servicemembers.

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