[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2537-2538]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE CONCERNS OF OUR DISTRICTS

  (Mr. HASTINGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTINGS. Mr. Speaker, one of the privileges we have here in the 
House of Representatives is to speak to any issue during this period of 
time.
  Regrettably, I rise today to speak of the death of an iconic figure, 
a dynamic force for social justice, Georgia Jones Ayers, who was not 
from my congressional district but from Congresswoman Frederica 
Wilson's district, and I am sure that the two of us will add additional 
remarks.

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  I also happily today come to the floor to congratulate the Dillard 
High School girls basketball team and the Palm Beach Lakes High School 
basketball teams. Dillard and Coach Pinder, my dear friend, have had 
such a consecutive run that they are becoming a real force nationally 
as well as locally, and Palm Beach County took theirs as well. So I am 
fortunate that I have girls basketball teams that are champions, and I 
proudly congratulate them.

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