[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26008]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ED ROYBAL

  (Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor 
the life of Ed Roybal, a member of this House of Representatives, and 
also to honor the work that his daughter, my colleague, Lucille Roybal-
Allard, does in this House.
  Ed Roybal for many of us was a path-maker. He was the first Mexican 
American on the City of Los Angeles City Council, and he was the first 
Mexican American from California to this House of Representatives. He 
is probably best known for his work in civil rights and his work on 
behalf of all people in California. Tonight, we honor him. We honor 
him, because for many of us he was an inspiration, an inspiration that 
told us that we could be a politician, that we could be a legislator, 
that we could be a leader from our community.
  I hope that this House will remember the great work of that 
appropriator, Ed Roybal.

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