[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 63 (Thursday, May 19, 1994)]
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   DEDICATION OF PERKINS PORTRAIT SCHEDULED FOR TODAY AS BLACK LUNG 
                       LEGISLATION IS CONSIDERED

  (Mr. RAHALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to alert my colleagues to an event 
that is occurring this afternoon that is directly related to 
legislation that this body will consider as well during the course of 
today. I inform my colleagues that at 2:15 today in the House Committee 
on Education and Labor we will unveil the portrait of the late 
Honorable Carl D. Perkins. At the same time on the floor of this body 
today, we will be considering legislation to reform the Federal Black 
Lung Program.
  There could be no better tribute to the legacy and to the remarkable 
career of the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky, Mr. Carl D. 
Perkins, than to pass this legislation through the House of 
Representatives today, the day that we unveil the portrait of Carl D. 
Perkins.
  Mr. Speaker, this legislation is all about human justice. I salute 
the leadership and commend them for scheduling this bill today, and I 
salute the distinguished chairman of the full Committee on Education 
and Labor, the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Ford], as well as the 
subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Murphy], 
for their leadership in bringing this long overdue legislation to the 
floor. It may not be a perfect bill, but indeed it is progress over the 
current system, and it will help to alleviate and help to end the cold 
bureaucratic nightmare many of our Nation's coal miners have been 
traveling through in order to obtain their just and legitimate 
benefits.

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