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Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, and still I rise, a proud, unbought, unbossed, liberated Democrat. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, with a heavy heart. I rise as an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community.
who has gone on to glory. I rise to recognize the greatness and the brilliance of the honorable Barney Frank, the first person as a Member of Congress to voluntarily announce that he was a gay person.
experience of sitting right in front of him for a good deal of time on the House Financial Services Committee.
the subject matter. Not only did he know the subject matter, but he could present it with a great degree of eloquence and a certain amount of humor.
He did it with style, and he did it without any notes. He never came to a hearing with notes. He could talk about the derivatives. He could talk about credit default swaps. He could talk about the 3/27s and 2/ 28s, all without a single note. I never saw him bring notes to one single hearing.
He was brilliant, one of the great minds of our time, Mr. Speaker.
of this country with Dodd-Frank, but also because he helped to shape the destiny of my path in Congress. He was a great mentor. He was someone who was well respected and that all the members of the committee, regardless of party affiliation, looked up to. He truly had something special—I believe the French call it je ne sais quoi—just something very unique, something that you just don't see in people, generally speaking. I am proud to call him a friend.
ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, present the Pride resolution annually in the Congress of the United States of America.
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sponsor of that resolution. I will continue to do so in H. Res. 550. He was an honorary cosponsor, and I shall continue in his absence to do so.
God bless you, dear brother. Rest in eternal peace.