[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16520]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF THE LATE ISAAC NEWTON SKELTON

  (Mr. CLEAVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, 2 days ago, what one newspaper called 
perhaps one of the gentlemen of Congress, Ike Skelton, died here in 
Washington. For those of us here in the Missouri delegation, as well as 
those who were involved with Congressman Skelton on the Armed Services 
Committee, we are here to convey to the body that our colleague, our 
friend, has, indeed, died, and we who had the opportunity to know and 
serve with him are, of course, very saddened by his unexpected death.
  Ike Skelton was 81 years old. He served here for 34 years and served 
all of that time on the Armed Services Committee and, of course, 
becoming the chair of Armed Services. He was a man of great humility, a 
man of great distinction, and was to be honored in 2 weeks at the 
Truman Library in Kansas City.
  We think that he has been such a significant player in Washington 
that we, indeed, had to stand up and express our pain over his passing.
  Senator Claire McCaskill is here from the other side, and we are 
asking, at this time, for the Members to stand in silence in memory of 
Isaac Newton Skelton.

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