National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2005

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - July 22, 2005)

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Mr. AL GREEN of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I would like to start by thanking the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) for her dynamic leadership on this issue. She has taken the bull by the horns, and she has done yeoman's work. I am so honored that she has brought this to our attention.

I would also like to thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert) and the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Gordon) because they have really demonstrated how bipartisanship can efficaciously cause us to reach a consensus that will cause great things to happen in the United States Congress. Those who say that there is no bipartisanship in this Congress are not familiar with the good works of this committee and especially the good works of these fine men, the chair and the ranking member.

Mr. Chairman, I want to make note that these institutions are not black and brown institutions. This is important because these institutions serve a multiplicity of ethnicities. They are the epitome of diversity. They are dearly needed because of the people that they serve. They do not get the children of the best and the brightest. They many times will get the children of the least, the last and the lost. They literally take the essence of mental clay and mold it into the quintessential manifestation of intellectual cloisonne. They are providing the bootstraps that we need in this society so that we can have good productive citizens who will pay taxes and will become part of the main stream that we so desire.

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