Honestly, who cares one way or the other on this? I get what he's saying about how it's not appropriate to honor a celebrity during a legislative session, but it's literally A MOMENT. Get over yourselves, and get back to work doing what you're elected and paid to do.
The amount of time this dude spent complaining about the MOMENT of silence probably took easily 25 times as much productivity as the moment of silence itself.
I wish our elected leaders would quit the posturing and political grandstanding and just WORK. That goes for members of all political parties.