others did an outstanding job. it just goes to show you working together across the aisle that we too can succeed. the co-captain, mr. shuster, who probably has the most difficult job of all night in the game and you can only imagine every member of congress thought they were the best player on the team. so he had the most difficult job all night. so i would yield to my co-captain, mr. shuster. mr. shuster: well, i thank the gentleman from north carolina. and i want to rise to also congratulate all the participants in a game well played last night. and we had many members of congress, as the gentleman from north carolina said, we had some former pro football players. it was a hard-fought battle. we won in overtime 32-26 with a fantastic pass from heath shuler to john booty. fabulous. as mr. shuler said, it's been four tries. this is our first victory being able to beat the capitol police, but the big winner was the capitol hill police memorial fund and the washington literacy council. we believe we raised about $50,000 for these -- between those two groups. i would also like to acknowledge our offense and defense players of the game. offense, it was easy, heath shuler, five touchdown passes. a fantastic game. i think the nfl is going to start looking at you, again, heath. give back to the nfl. and also on defense. there were two players that played the game, big surprises for our team. jack kingston, better known as brett favre of the congressional team, had an outstanding game, but it's the defensive player of the game went to anthony "mad dog" weiner, who had two key interceptions in the game and played fantastic. and i want to thank speaker pelosi and leader boehner for their help and support in putting this game together. also roger ga dell, the commissioner to flip the coin and john harvey, two former nfl players did a fantastic job setting this up and again to thank the clip police who do a great job -- clip police who do a great job -- capitol hill police who do a great job day in and day out. i yield back. mr. shuler: i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california, the speaker of the house. the speaker: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to congratulate our teams that won so decisively last night. mr. boehner and i were there to cheer the democratic republican, republican democratic team on. the good news is a that they won. the bad news is they beat the capitol police. so i don't know what that means. the fact is that it was great teamwork between the democrats and the republicans which was in the rotunda earlier today, senator edward brook whom we had honored with a congressional gold medal was pleased to hear about this teamwork between democrats and republicans and indeed it got a standing ovation from those folks who didn't even know about the game until then. but you should have seen our guys. they were so great. mr. shuster, congratulations, where did he go? congratulations. you know what? the last time i saw you guys they were playing baseball. from baseball to football. all-around athletes, great teamwork, great leadership, congratulations to our team and i, too, want to join in thanking the capitol police. i know they went all out last night, they always go all out for us. congratulations. i want to yield to mr. boehner. come on. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. the speaker: we were suited up but we were not called upon.