[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 20 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H522]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WELCOMING DELTA SORORITY TO CAPITOL HILL

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, today Members of Congress and others will 
see a thousand women of color visiting all of our offices. They call 
themselves the Delta Sorority. Here the leadership is provided by Judge 
Fudge as they come close to celebrating their 100th anniversary.
  They have a legislative agenda, a community agenda, a civic agenda; 
and one of the things that they like to point out is that today we 
recognize the terrible epidemic of AIDS and HIV problems we have with 
blood. We hope that we learn to educate more people about the danger of 
AIDS, that we provide better treatment, and even better than that, that 
we avoid it by having preventive measures so it doesn't happen at all.
  Also on their agenda is making certain that the payroll deductions 
for working poor people are extended, as is unemployment compensation, 
which is not only fiscally, but morally, the right thing to do, and 
that we pay our debts, pay the doctors who serve the aged.

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