[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4708-4709]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       LANCE CORPORAL DANIEL NATHAN DEYARMIN POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass 
the bill (H.R. 1813) to redesignate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 162 Northeast Avenue in Tallmadge, Ohio, as 
the ``Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin Post Office Building'', as 
amended.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 1813

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. LANCE CORPORAL DANIEL NATHAN DEYARMIN, JR., POST 
                   OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Redesignation.--The facility of the United States 
     Postal Service located at 162 Northeast Avenue in Tallmadge, 
     Ohio, shall be known and designated as the ``Lance Corporal 
     Daniel Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., Post Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin, 
     Jr., Post Office Building''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Farenthold) and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clay) each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas.


                             General Leave

  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all 
Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend 
their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under 
consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Texas?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  H.R. 1813 was introduced by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) and 
would redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 162 Northeast Avenue in Tallmadge, Ohio, as the Lance 
Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin Post Office Building.
  Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., who went by 
``Nathan,'' was born on July 30, 1983, in Akron, Ohio. His family moved 
to Tallmadge when he was just a year and a half old, and Nathan grew up 
there. He was a 2002 graduate of Tallmadge High School.
  Nathan joined the Marines in 2003, and served with Weapons Company, 
3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division. In March of 
2005, Nathan was deployed to Iraq. Sadly, just 5 months later, he was 
killed on August 1 by enemy small arms fire while conducting dismounted 
operations outside Haditha. Five other marines died at his side.
  Madam Speaker, Representative Ryan's staff shared with me that when 
Nathan was asked why he wanted to join the military, he said that he 
``wanted a brother'' and that he ``wanted to become a respectable, 
responsible, productive American.'' He certainly achieved all of those 
goals.
  In the eyes of his family, friends, fellow marines, countrymen, and 
those of us standing here today to honor his tremendous sacrifice, he 
is one of the most respected Americans this body has had the great 
privilege of honoring. Those brave men and women who put themselves in 
harm's way to defend our safety and freedom deserve our honor, respect, 
and heartfelt gratitude.
  I ask my colleagues for their strong support of H.R. 1813, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CLAY. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan).
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank the 
gentleman from Texas for his kind words as well.
  Madam Speaker, from the Book of Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 8:

       Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I 
     send? And I said, Here I am. Send me.

  Nate said, Send me, when his country asked and he was looking for a 
way to serve. He joined the Marine Corps.

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  Lance Corporal Deyarmin was born on July 30, 1983. He was named after 
his father, but they started calling him ``Nate.'' They moved to 
Tallmadge, in our congressional district, when he was 1\1/2\ years old. 
He lived there his whole life. His family said he was a homeboy from 
Tallmadge. Nate went to school there and played sports there. He lived 
there and he made friends there.
  Nate joined the Marine Corps as his way of serving, but when you read 
about his life, the interesting thing--and what we are celebrating 
here--is that he said, Send me, from the very early stages of his life 
here on Earth.
  When his great grandfather was 89 years old and bedridden, it was 
little Nate that jumped into the bed and started playing Legos to 
engage his great grandfather to make him feel better. They had this 
little game they would play where his grandfather would move his false 
teeth in and out of his mouth and little Nate would try and grab the 
teeth. A few years later, when the great grandfather died, Nate had an 
opportunity to pick whatever he wanted of his great grandfather's--and 
he picked the false teeth.
  I think that is the kind of spirit that Nate brought to his family, 
friends, the Marine Corps, and to our country.
  While driving down the road on his way to school, if there happened 
to be someone walking to school who didn't have a driver's license, 
Nate was the kind of guy that stopped and picked that person up and 
took them to school.

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  Nate said: Send me.
  If someone was bullying someone at school and Nate was there, Nate 
was the guy who got in the middle of it and made sure that no one was 
bullied. He said: Send me.
  If a family was having trouble, Nate would stop by the house, make 
sure everything was going okay. Nate said: Send me.
  So now, those of us who drive by this post office in Tallmadge, Ohio, 
we will look up, we will see Nate's name, and we will not only remember 
his name or his service, but how his life challenges all of us in some 
way, shape, or form, in every little interaction, to say and answer the 
call when we are asked: Send me.
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, we are prepared to close, and I 
reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. CLAY. Madam Speaker, I want to thank my friend from Ohio for 
bringing this bill forward. I ask that we pass the underlying bill, 
without reservation, to honor Lance Corporal Deyarmin and his steadfast 
dedication to this country.
  I urge the passage of H.R. 1813, and I yield back the balance of my 
time.
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, I urge this body to join the gentleman 
from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) and me in supporting H.R. 1813, renaming the 
United States Postal Service facility at 162 Northeast Avenue in 
Tallmadge, Ohio, to honor Nate, naming it as the Lance Corporal Daniel 
Nathan Deyarmin, Jr., Post Office Building.
  Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Farenthold) that the House suspend the rules 
and pass the bill, H.R. 1813, as amended.
  The question was taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds 
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Madam Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this motion will be postponed.

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