House Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:08:00 to 0:09:55
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Steny H. Hoyer: of distinguished service to us all. bill, congratulations. mr. diaz-balart: i yield to the distinguished majority leader. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman from florida for yielding.

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Speech By: Steny H. Hoyer

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Steny H. Hoyer: 20,000 votes is a quantity fible criteria. -- quantifyble criteria. for those of you who are new, what's not quantifyble is the real measure of the man. 20,000 votes, a conscientious member. but the real measure of bill young is if americans had the

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Steny H. Hoyer: opportunity to the house is not in order. the chair: the gentleman is correct. mr. hoyer: the real measure of bill yich americans would have observed had they been with him during each of

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Steny H. Hoyer: those votes, is the decency of bill young. is the collegiality of bill young. of his inclination to reach across the aisle, reach across ideology, reach across and say, how can we do this together? bill young is an example for us

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Steny H. Hoyer: all of how to treat one another and how tongage in this process, though we may have differences, in way that built a better -- in a way that built a better institution, not tore it dounl. that is why -- down. that is why those 20,000 votes are deserving of so much respect.

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Steny H. Hoyer: because the character with which they were cast and the character that characterized and continues to characterize the gentleman from florida's service.