[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. SOLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. SOLIS. Mr. Speaker, I too wish to associate my words with our 
colleagues from California and honor the great legend, Congressman Ed 
Roybal. I had the privilege of knowing of his work. I worked with his 
daughter also when she was a member of the assembly. Ed Roybal in the 
tradition of Hispanic politics really led the way for so many of us by 
creating an activism and participation that cannot be compared 
anywhere.
  He started NALEO, National Association of Latino Elected Officials, 
and also was very much an advocate on health care. One of his major 
comprehensive health care centers is in East Los Angeles, and it stands 
there as a tribute to the work that he did tirelessly for the people in 
poverty, for the elderly, for seniors and helped establish the school 
of gerontology at USC and UCLA.
  He has been a wonderful individual role model for many of us, 
fighting discrimination. He fought against Dodger Stadium in East L.A. 
in Chavez Ravine when developers wanted to displace low-income Mexican 
Americans back in that era.
  He is someone who will be strongly remembered by many of us. I know 
that his daughter serves very proudly representing his district, and I 
know that legacy will continue on. He is someone who fought for 
immigrants when it was not popular, was someone who fought for civil 
rights, for education and for equal treatment and also for AIDS 
education and awareness.
  He was truly a pioneer and someone to this very day whose very 
history can be repeated here through, I think, the leadership of his 
daughter as well as other members of the Hispanic Caucus, which he was 
the first individual to start. He served as our Chair for that 
congressional caucus that now has been in operation, I would say, for 
more than 20 years, if not more.
  Mr. Speaker, with that, I would just pay tribute to the Roybal family 
and also to their daughter who serves with us here.

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