. >> reporter: it was sheila lawrence who started it. >> she fed all of them. if it walked or crawled, she fed it. >> one look at those seven-foot wingspans carriying those three 0-pound bodies. -- 30-pound body. day, from dark to dark. >> reporter: until the day she wasn't. >> yeah. >> reporter: jim lost his wife eight months after her diagnosis, but not before she asked him, will you feed my swans, and he promised. >> no question in my mind that i was going to feed them. >> reporter: 38 buckets and 1200 pounds he will feed them just today, less talking, he will tell you than sheila would like. but that doesn't account for the speaking jim does with his heart. >> my passion is to make sure her legacy continues. >> reporter: his promise kept. >> she's looking down on him, saying "you are doing a good job". >> reporter: precious is the swan song that keeps on going. jim feeds the swans every winter morning. pays for the feeds with donations and out of his own pocket. >>> when a mother lost her 7 month old son, it proved to be another family's saving grace. . >>>

opportunity to travel with congressman dan kildee, congresswoman brenda lawrence, dingell and oman other members of congress, sheila jackson lee to see firsthand the water crisis in flint, michigan. i want to report to the members of the house what i saw was appalling. at this point, so many weeks after the lead crisis was identified, they have no central medical team examining those children. it is appalling. they have no water buffalos supplied by the national guard with president bushized p.v.c. tubing. they have no hot showers go, that are portable and put in the schools in that community to me was absolutely appalling. i was told that the governor of that state had not even met with the people of the community. he came in for a press conference. is that what this is about? i met children who had hemorrhages and ulcers from drinking that water and black rashes. our country has a responsibility to this country. there ought to be a central coordinator. and those children and the citizens ought to be taken care of. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recogni