[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 63 (Friday, May 19, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E915]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SALUTING CHARLES YOUNG

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                   HON. CHARLES W. ``CHIP'' PICKERING

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 19, 2006

  Mr. PICKERING. Mr. Speaker, today I ask Congress to join me in 
saluting the life and legacy of Mississippi State Representative 
Charles Young for his 25 years of elected public service. Charles has 
put his stamp on state's educational system as Chairman of the 
Universities and Colleges Committee. And his impact on his hometown of 
Meridian, and indeed across the state, as a seminal player in our civil 
rights movement, cannot be overstated.
  Over the years, Charles and I have partnered on initiatives to 
benefit East Mississippi: economic development projects, educational 
improvement goals, and renewal and arts endeavors like the Meridian 
Grand Opera House. His faith and commitment to state and country have 
empowered him to make a real difference through service in the lives of 
his neighbors and in the fabric of his community.
  Mr. Speaker, it is totally fitting that tomorrow night I will join 
other members of the Mississippi Delegation, local and state officials, 
as well as community leaders and activists in honoring Charles Young as 
part of the Carnegie Library Renovation Project. It is my wish to take 
with me the well wishes and congratulations of this Congress to this 
longtime public servant. I hope you all will join me today--so that I 
might extend that unity of national good-will to him tomorrow--in 
saluting Representative Charles Young.

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