Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6772) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1717 Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the…
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6772) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1717 Orange Avenue in Fort Pierce, Florida, as the ``CeeCee Ross Lyles Post Office Building''.
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks.
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Speaker, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I rise in support of H.R. 6772 which aims to rename the postal facility in the city of Fort Pierce, Florida, after CeeCee Ross Lyles, who was a flight attendant aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the horrible attacks of 9/11.
H.R. 6772, which was introduced by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Mahoney) on August 1, 2008, was reported from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on September 10, 2008, by voice vote. The measure has the support of Florida's entire House congressional delegation and recognizes Mrs. Lyles for the upstanding life she lived and the legacy she leaves behind.
CeeCee Ross Lyles has been described as a strong, smart, street-savvy young lady. Before becoming a flight attendant, she spent 6 years on the Fort Pierce Police Department where she worked her way from patrol officer to detective and was respected widely by her colleagues.
Although CeeCee enjoyed working as a law enforcement officer, on October 11, 2000, she walked away from her job as a cop to pursue a lifelong goal of hers, which was to become an airline flight attendant. It was this decision that would lead her to join the ranks of United Airlines on the morning of September 11, 2001. Along with other crew members and passengers, she would be faced with the unthinkable, a hijacked airline carrier.
Moments before Flight 93 went down in the field of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, CeeCee dialed home twice on a cell phone to tell her husband, Lorne, of the hijacking and to send her love to her boys, Javon, Jerome, Justin and Jordon.
A devout wife and mother to her sons, CeeCee lost her life far too early, like so many others on that tragic day in history. While last week the country stopped to remember the victims of 9/11, today we take a moment to acknowledge one individual in particular, and that is CeeCee Ross Lyles, crew member of Flight 93.
Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in supporting H.R. 6772, which renames the Orange Avenue Post Office in Fort Pierce, Florida, after Ms. Lyles, an honor certainly befitting of this fallen hero. Again, I urge passage of the bill.
I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Florida, Representative Mahoney.
(Mr. MAHONEY of Florida asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.