Cardiovascular Advances in Research and Opportunities Legacy Act

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Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman yielding, and I don't know how you follow Andy Barr and that story.

Madam Speaker, Andy talked a lot about Carol, as he should, but we also want to talk about him and how he responded.

This is an opportunity to turn a tragedy into hope. And there are a lot of people that would be too bitter, too angry, too frustrated, too betrayed to take that opportunity and refocus it and turn it into help for others. Madam Speaker, Andy is doing that, and he is showing his daughters what his wife would do.

So to those of us who knew her, he is absolutely right, I can still hear in my mind's ear this, ``just get it done.'' It would be a desperate tone sometimes, ``just get it done.''

But the words that I think of as I was sitting here, and I have sort of thrown aside all the prepared remarks, and I want to speak from the heart. I just started writing down a few words.

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Mr. HUIZENGA. Passionate, patriot, fierce--not mean, but fierce--and focused. She was a leader of teams, but a leader of her family, too.

And, Madam Speaker, that is Andy. He has been forced into some roles that he was not expecting he was going to have to take care of. And this is what he does best. He throws himself in. He dives in, and he works hard to help others. And that, too, is a legacy, a legacy for Carol and for the girls.

And for Eleanor and Mary Clay, may they know that their mom loved them. She loved them. And their dad loves them. And Carol is not with us today, but she is not gone because we won't forget her. And we will make sure her legacy continues.

Madam Speaker, we love Andy, and we are here for him. I am so grateful we can help so many others around the country.

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