[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15372-15373]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                MOURNING THE PASSING OF STEVE VERMILLION

  (Mr. SENSENBRENNER asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SENSENBRENNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Rivera) in mourning the passing of Steve Vermillion. 
I gave Steve Vermillion one of his first jobs on Capitol Hill and 
taught him about the legislative process. He was a man of unquestioned 
ability, a man of deep integrity, and a man of great commitment to his 
principles and love of this country and the democracy that we have 
built and nurtured over the last 230-plus years.
  His service to other Members of Congress, as well as in the private 
sector,

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was marked by making a difference. No one who worked with Steve 
Vermillion or who was touched by his life came away a poorer person 
from it. He enriched all of our lives. He made a great contribution, 
and I join with the gentleman from Florida in expressing our sympathies 
to his wife, Jennifer, and to his two children on his passage.
  May his soul rest in peace.

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