[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 4, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H1476-H1477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       RECOGNIZING HANK WOLGAMOTT

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Madam Speaker, last Thursday night, as the House was 
recessed, I stood at this podium with a future President of the United 
States of America. His name is Hank Wolgamott. He is on the right in 
this picture.
  Hank is one of my bosses in Texas 22. When he was 9 years old, his 
left arm was in a cast. The doctors said he had fractured his elbow. 
They were wrong. Blood was going into his elbow joint. He had severe 
hemophilia.
  With the love of his mom, Amanda; his dad, Jesse; and his brother, 
Jack, Hank went to war against his condition, even though he was too 
young to know what was happening inside his body.

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  At 16 months old, he had a port placed in his left chest as part of 
his immune tolerance induction therapy. That was there for over 6 
years. A fever or a fall meant a trip to the hospital to stop the 
bleeding. But Hank soldiered on.
  My dad always told me: There are no guarantees in life. I have been 
alive now for 57 years and 3 months, and my dad has never been wrong--
until I met Hank. There is a new guarantee in my life: Never bet 
against Hank Wolgamott. Hank always wins.
  Vote for Hank in 2048. You will be glad you did.

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