To designate the airport traffic control tower located at Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington, as the "Ray Daves Airport Traffic Control Tower".

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 5591, as amended, introduced by the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. McMorris Rodgers), which designates the airport traffic control tower located at Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington, as the ``Ray Daves Air Traffic Control Tower''.

The air traffic controllers in Spokane, Washington, were so inspired by the biography of Ray Daves, a World War II radioman and civilian air traffic controller, that they began urging to have the airport traffic control tower where he had worked named after him.

Ray Daves was a radioman for the U.S. Navy during World War II. He survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor. During the attack, he carried ammunition to a machine gun on the second-story roof of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Headquarters on Oahu, Hawaii. Later, Daves volunteered for service aboard the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier, where he was assigned to the emergency radio room. He was present during the Battle of the Coral Sea and the sinking of Yorktown during the Battle of Midway in 1942.

During the rest of World War II, Daves served his country in Alaska as a radioman at Cold Bay, Alaska, for the U.S. Navy's air fields in the Aleutian Islands and flew ``second seat'' as gunner for aerial search-and-destroy missions against Japanese submarines in Alaskan waters. He also served as a liaison for the Soviet Air Force pilots who acquired U.S. bombers and fighter planes for the war in Europe. Daves taught at the Navy's school for radiomen in Gulfport, Mississippi, from 1945 until the end of the war.

When the war was over, Daves became a civilian air traffic controller at Geiger Field, later known as the Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington. He worked as an air traffic controller there for almost 30 years (from 1946 to 1974). Currently, Daves volunteers by educating other veterans about the Honor Flight program, which helps World War II veterans visit the memorial in their honor located in Washington, DC.

I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting H.R. 5591.

Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5591) to designate the facility of the Federal Aviation Administration located at Spokane International Airport in Spokane, Washington, as the ``Ray Daves Air Traffic Control Tower,'' as amended.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on H.R. 5591.

I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I support H.R. 5591, and I urge support of this bill.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I also rise in support of H.R. 5591, introduced by my colleague from Washington, Representative McMorris Rodgers, which, as the gentleman has just said, designates the airport traffic control tower located at Spokane International Airport as the Ray Daves Air Traffic Control Tower.

Again, I urge all our colleagues to also support it.

I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Commerce Committee be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5591, and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements related to the bill be printed in the Record.