roosevelt deliver the day of infamy speech, and he was there 70 years later when i started my career in the house. i have to tell you he treated me like we were lifelong friends, with respect and courtesy. he was a great man and our hearts go out to his wife debby, to their family. we have lost a great american. and it was a measure of his greatness that right until the end he had one of the most clever and wittiest twitter accounts you are ever going to find. for someone in his 90s to do that shows you how nimble an intellect he was. he was the author of some of the most important pieces of legislation in america. >> he's a long serving chairman and an expert in many subjects. one thing he did do is introduced a universal coverage health care bill and it was the very same bill that his father