[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ROSA PARKS

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, over the course of the weekend, the Capitol 
will be busy. As people know, on Tuesday of this week, civil rights 
icon Rosa Parks passed away in her Detroit home at the age of 92. 
Throughout her life, she was a champion, an activist, a true hero, and 
has left a legacy that all of us will carry forward and pass on to our 
children and future generations because of that simple act--not so 
simple act, but that dramatic act of refusal to give up her seat on a 
Montgomery bus that was the was the catalyst for that historic civil 
rights movement that and remade our Nation.
  Last night, it was our honor in this body to pass a resolution to 
allow the remains of Rosa Parks to lie in state on Sunday and Monday in 
the Capitol Rotunda. The House is expected to ratify a similar 
resolution today. Citizens from all around the country and really all 
around the globe, I am sure, will come to pay their respects. Rosa 
Parks will be forever etched in history as a testament to how one 
person with courage can literally change the world.
  Although shortly we will be closing, at this time, I suggest the 
absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. FRIST. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order 
for the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Ms. Murkowski). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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