House, Senate memorialize former colleagues in annual service

Both the House and Senate are holding their annual memorial services today for former members who have died in the past year. The House already has begun its service; the Senate is taking up some of its calendar and will start its memorial service at 11, but it likely won’t get to its 3rd reading calendar, which is topped by controversial legislation on controlled hunt tags.

So far this morning, the Senate has approved HJM 4, a memorial that earlier passed the House urging that Sgt. Chris Tschida, an Iraq war veteran wounded in a 2005 grenade attack on his tank crew between Ramadi and Fallujah, receive the Medal of Honor for his heroics. The Senate and its gallery gave Tshida an extended ovation.