Speaker. it is with a heavy heart that I mourn the passing of our distinguished former colleague. the Honorable Thomas J. Manton. Tom was a great public servant. a great New Yorker. and a great American. Indeed. Tom Manton was the personification of the American Dream. The son of immigrants from the Irish countryside. Tom Manton was born and raised a New Yorker. His father was a plasterer. and Tom loved to tell the story of how proud his father was of his election to Congress. and how when he came to celebrate that election. they were in the Longworth Building. and his father told him that he had helped build that building in which Tom served.
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