[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 99 (Wednesday, June 7, 2023)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E531]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REMEMBERING PABLO ``P.J.'' VARGAS, JR.

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                         HON. MICHAEL T. McCAUL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 7, 2023

  Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart that I announce the 
passing of Pablo ``P.J.'' Vargas, Jr.
  Pablo was a constituent, a friend and the loving and dedicated father 
of the office manager for my College Station congressional office.
  A lifelong Texan, Pablo attended Palo Alto College and moved to 
Bryan/College Station in 1990 to attend Texas A&M University to study 
civil engineering, where he graduated in 1992 and met his wife, Dee Dee 
Vargas, a Bryan native, whom he married in 1996.
  P.J. was the proud parent of three children--Desiree Denise Carlin, 
Destinee Denise Vargas, and Pablo Vargas, III.
  Just as his daughter Destinee is a dedicated civil servant, so was 
Pablo, who served the Texas Department of Transportation for 28 years.
  Pablo loved to talk to everyone in the community and was always 
willing to help others. His generosity and his heart was as big as the 
state of Texas.
  I extend my deepest sympathies to the Vargas family and the community 
he was so committed to serving.

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