[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 194 (Tuesday, December 18, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H16813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE HONORABLE JULIA CARSON

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Lewis) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I want to take just a moment to 
pay tribute to our friend, our colleague, our beloved sister, Julia 
Carson. It is my belief that when the Almighty created this beautiful, 
charming woman, he threw away the mold.
  Long before Julia Carson came here, she was a fighter, someone who 
stood up and spoke out for those that have been left out and left 
behind. She was a champion of ordinary people, a champion for justice, 
for civil rights, for human dignity. I want to thank her friend and our 
former colleague, Andy Jacob, whom I served with, for doing all he 
could do to have Julia Carson come to this place.
  In this body, we are like a family, one family. We become like 
sisters and brothers. And I feel with the loss and passing of Julia 
Carson, we have lost a member of our family. The chain, the circle, has 
been broken.
  I will never forget when I was much younger, on April, 4, 1968, 
almost 40 years ago, I was in her district. She was not representing 
the district then, but we were in the City of Indianapolis with Robert 
Kennedy when he announced to the crowd that Dr. Martin Luther King, 
Jr., had been assassinated. When Julia came here, she always said to 
me, John, you must come back to Indianapolis and visit. And I have gone 
back there.
  We will miss her. She has gone on to a better place. And we will 
never, ever see her likeness again.

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