[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1915
                      CONGRESSIONAL PATRIOT AWARD

  (Mr. LARSON of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend the 
Bipartisan Policy Center for establishing the Congressional Patriot 
Award and naming Sam Johnson and John Lewis as its first recipients.
  On March 15, at the Library of Congress, with David Rubenstein 
presiding, we will talk about their extraordinary lives and their 
contributions to this institution; wherein, they will be given a medal 
in their names which forevermore will be perpetuated by this body where 
both a Democrat and a Republican will receive this distinguished award 
based on the patriotism that they provided to their Nation.
  I cannot think of two more exemplary figures in this body than Sam 
Johnson, who was nearly beaten to death in the Vietcong and imprisoned 
for 7 years, 42 months of solitary confinement, and John Lewis, who was 
nearly beaten to death by the Alabama police after crossing the Edmund 
Pettus Bridge.
  Please join us at the Library of Congress. We will be here on the 
floor every day with my co-chair, Tom Cole, to talk about this great 
event in their honor.

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