[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18679]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             WORLD AIDS DAY

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, December 1, 2011

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, the fight to arrest HIV-AIDS must 
continue.
  Today is December 1, World Aids Day and in Chicago at the Ruth 
Rothstein Core Center at 2020 West Harrison St., Chicago, Governor Pat 
Quinn, and a group of AIDS professionals activists organized by Benny 
Montgomery, a retired member of my Congressional staff are holding a 
press conference as we do every year to kick off a day of awareness 
raising and action to help in the fight against HIV and AIDS. I am 
generally able to be with this group. However, my duties as a Member of 
Congress have kept me here in Washington, DC. Nevertheless, I am 
pleased to be represented by my assistant Ms. Cherita Logan, our Deputy 
District Director, who is a long time aids activist and education 
program director herself.
  We recognize that although some programs has been made, as a matter 
of fact much progress has been made, but we still have much further to 
go; therefore I urge each one of us to do as much individually and 
collectively as we can to fight this dreadful disease.

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