May their life and story be a memory and a blessing and an inspiration to all of us, forever preserved here in the permanent record of the people's house. Madam speaker, today I pay tribute to a basketball coaching legend who helped lead the Michigan State University Spartans men's basketball team to 19 NA tournaments, ten Big ten championships, seven Final Fours, and a national championship. But as impressive as those statistics are, former MSU assistant coach Mike Garland quite literally came back from the dead and is now using his second chance at life to pay this incredible gift forward. (14:40–14:58)
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