| Matthew Ransdell, Honored For His Commitment To Volunteer At Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Healthcare System |
May 20, 2013 |
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C. W. Bill Young, R-FL
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"Mr. Speaker, today I would like to pay tribute to Mr. Matthew Ransdell for his commitment to serving our wounded veterans. Over the past two years he has committed countless hours serving our wounded Veterans at Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (VAHCS). While volunteering, he brings joy and happiness to everyone that he meets and works with. Bay Pines VAHCS provides excellent health, psychiatric and extended care services for over 10,000 Veterans a year as they return home and integrate back into civilian life. Bay Pines is made up of nine facilities along Florida’s west coast, and provides outstanding healthcare to Florida’s Veterans. The 3,500 staff members and 1,500 volunteers have made it possible for the men and women that have served this nation in uniform to obtain the best possible care. Matthew is just one of those 1,500 volunteers, but he stands out for his exceptional service to the facility and its patients. He has dedicated over 1,000 hours of his time, in the past two years, to volunteering. During this time spent, he has created thousands of smiles for both patients and staff. He makes people smile with anything from a simple thumbs up to his signature “happy dance” that he has perfected in his time at Bay Pines VAHCS. Everyone, from patients to VA directors, dances with him. In addition to bringing vast amounts of happiness, he works in the Voluntary Service storage room by organizing and delivering robes, books, shirts, and toiletries to Veterans in the medical center. I would like to recognize Matthew as a patriotic and incredible man who continues his part to serve the country. He has found a way to share his gifts of love and cheerfulness with the men and women who have selflessly put their lives on the line for our freedom. For this, I would ask all my colleagues to join me in thanking and commending Matthew for his service and dedication to our Nation’s heroes."
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| Agriculture Reform, Food, And Jobs Act Of 2013—Motion To Proceed |
May 15, 2013 |
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James Inhofe, R-OK
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"Hydraulic fracturing was actually developed in the State of Oklahoma—in Duncan, OK, where I will actually be this coming weekend—way back in 1949. By the way, it is very safe. There has never been a confirmed case of groundwater contamination using hydraulic fracturing. But when all this came about, all of a sudden we had a huge boom here in the United States. This is all on private land. I want to make that very clear. Because the oil and gas industry developed and perfected these methods, which are environmentally safe, we are now able to economically reach oil and natural gas in places we never thought would be possible, and production has skyrocketed."
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| America’S Future |
December 20, 2012 |
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Allen West, R-FL
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"I believe that we are standing on the verge of a new dawn for America. But all we have to do is go back and recommit to those principles and value that our Founding Fathers accepted, that our Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration, that they improved and perfected through the Constitution, and now they’re looking at us in this generation to be the ones that carry it on. 236 years. And I believe that we will be around for another 236 years."
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| Patent Overhaul Technical Corrections |
December 18, 2012 |
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Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA
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"So I would ask my colleagues to oppose this legislation until it is perfected so we are not going to hurt the little inventors and hurt our country’s ability on the technology front by trying to make a few technical corrections to the way the Patent Office does its job."
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| Shipley Donuts |
November 15, 2012 |
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Ted Poe, R-TX
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"Together with his son, Lawrence W. Shipley, III, Shipley Jr. perfected the donut and branched out to making kolaches, now one of their signature products. Shipley, III, is currently president of the Shipley Donuts company and strives to maintain the same gourmet donut products his grandfather worked hard to perfect for many years. And it wasn’t something that happened overnight."
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