[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 164 (Sunday, December 18, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H12286]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING AND CONGRATULATING SOJOURNER TRUTH

  (MS. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the sun is now rising, and I 
am very grateful that the sun has risen on the history of this House.
  Just a few minutes ago, this House passed unanimously H.R. 4510, a 
bill that I authored and introduced with 232 cosponsors. Let me thank 
my colleagues for allowing a speaker of truth to be placed by way of a 
bust in the United States Capitol. Isabella Baumfree, now Sojourner 
Truth, was one of the earliest and most passionate of the female 
abolitionists and a fighter for women's rights and the right to vote. 
Her cause was championed by Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, one of the most 
prominent civil rights leaders in the past 40 years and the first 
African American woman to serve as Secretary of State in the State of 
Pennsylvania.
  Allow me to thank Chairman Ney as well as Ranking Member Millender-
McDonald for their great leadership of the House Administration 
Committee and Diane Watson for her championing of the cause in working 
with me, the Speaker of the House, the leader of the House, and all of 
my colleagues who can go home thinking that we are a Nation and a 
Capitol that respects the history of all Americans.
  Congratulations to Sojourner Truth in her death for now being placed 
in the United States Capitol.

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