[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO EARL HARGROVE

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I will place a statement into the 
Congressional Record paying tribute to the memory of my dear friend, 
Earl Hargrove, who passed earlier this month.
  Earl was a very respected figure in Maryland's Fifth District; in 
Maryland; and, indeed, nationally. He built a successful specialty 
decorations and event planning business and served our Nation in the 
Marine Corps.
  Everyone has seen Earl Hargrove's work in America because he did many 
of the inaugural floats for our Presidents; so when you watched 
television, you were watching the work of Earl Hargrove, his family, 
and coworkers.
  I am honored to celebrate his life and legacy today, and I hope my 
colleagues will join me in offering condolences to Earl's wife of six 
decades, Gloria Love Hargrove, and to his children and grandchildren.

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