misty eyed moments for the speaker. listening to a song on st. patrick's day, before america the beautiful, after a tribute to golf legend arnold palmer.e some regret that john left the political scene when he did. if he had only endured a few more years i never would have become crying chuck schumer. [laughter] the president labeled me, and initially was parenthetical, as fake tears schumer, because i was weepy when we had immigrants whose families were being split up on stage. and trump said, i know schumer, those are fake tears, he never cries. actually it is well known in my family, when i took my daughters to see "free willy," i started weeping uncontrollably when he escapes. my daughters ran out of the theater. so we have that in common as well. i'm not going to say speaker boehner and i agreed on most issues or even many. immigration comes to mind. but he always exercised humility and a sense of humor and understood the nature of compromise. he knew that in a divided government, you don't get 100% of what you want all the time. sometimes he knew you do not even get what you want from your own side of the aisle. it is not hard to