July 30, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 135 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

[Pages H4178-H4179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING DEACON WILLIAM FRANCIS XAVIER KANE

  Mr. MOULTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MOULTON. Madam Speaker, I rise to commemorate Deacon William 
Francis Xavier Kane.
  Deacon Kane served as an Army intelligence officer in Vietnam. He 
received a Bronze Star and the Soldier's Medal for Heroism in the war.
  When he came home, he became an FBI special agent; and after a long 
career, he went to seminary school and

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became a deacon for the Archdiocese of Boston. He ministered to inmates 
and learned Spanish to reach more people. Later in life, he organized 
mission trips abroad.
  Deacon William Kane served us, but we failed him. On May 10, he died 
from the coronavirus while under the care of the Veterans 
Administration. He is among the 2,083 veterans in the VA's care that 
this virus has killed.
  It is on us to use the powers of this body to protect veterans, and 
everyone, from this virus. We must get to the bottom of the mistakes at 
the VA that allowed the virus to spread. It is the least we can do for 
the memory of Deacon William Francis Xavier Kane.

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