[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 10503-10504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING MARVIN TEIXEIRA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Nevada (Mr. Amodei) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. AMODEI. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow in Carson City, Nevada, there will 
be a memorial service for former Mayor Marv Teixeira. Marv called 
Carson City home for about 50 years, coming from the bay area as the 
IBM typewriter--I know that is a phrase that is foreign to many of 
you--as the IBM typewriter salesman in the State capital of Nevada. 
During those decades, Marv set a blistering pace as a member of the 
community: husband, coach, businessman, public servant, lobbyist, and 
kind of a self-appointed Carson City gadfly.
  Before he became what we friendly referred to him as the ``mayor for 
life,'' he was the unofficial youth sports czar for Carson City. He 
coached recreation

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league basketball, coached Little League baseball, founded the Pop 
Warner football league in Carson City. In this later role as the 
founder of the Pop Warner football league, he had the distinction of 
molding a then young Dean Heller, now a United States Senator from 
Nevada, into the football athlete that Senator Heller didn't become.
  Once he was elected mayor of Carson City, his Portuguese charm was on 
full display. If he called you ``pal'' during a board of supervisors 
meeting, you weren't a pal. He called for motions to adjourn when the 
agenda was completed by announcing, ``We are out of Schlitz.''
  He fancied himself a top-tier lobbyist for Carson City, both at the 
State level and here in the Nation's Capital, because if lawmakers 
didn't do what he thought should be done, he simply questioned your 
intelligence and, in a fatherly way, advised you to do what he wanted 
you to do, and please be quick about it.
  Finally, Marv understood that he was both good-looking and a sharp 
dresser. In this role, he taught me an invaluable lesson as a public 
servant: when you are at functions, the proper thing to wear was not a 
tie, that you should wear a turtleneck; because, invariably, if food 
was being served at these functions and you happened to drip something 
down the front, you could, as Marv demonstrated to me on one occasion 
at a function, simply go to the men's room, turn the turtleneck around, 
put your sport coat back on, and come back as if nothing ever happened.
  Carson will miss our mayor for life. When you go by the bypass, the 
hay barn as we like to call it, or Governors Field, think of our mayor 
for life, Marv Teixeira.
  Rest in peace, Your Honor; and thank you, Coach.

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