Designating Certain Buildings of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
DESIGNATING CERTAIN BUILDINGS OF CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION -- (House of Representatives - December 13, 2005)
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the distinguished gentlewoman from the District of Columbia for yielding me this time.
I am pleased to cosponsor this resolution with the gentlewoman from Kentucky (Mrs. Northup) and rise in strong support of it passage.
Mr. Speaker, this bill renames two buildings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in honor of two of the world's most outstanding and most accomplished contemporary women.
Designation of building one names the Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention located at 1600 Clifton Road in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Rosa Parks Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center Building.
Designation two of this bill changes the name of the Global Communications Center building at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Building 19 located at 1600 Clifton Road as the Mother Teresa Global Communications Center Building.
Mr. Speaker, we all know that Mother Teresa was one of the greatest advocates for the poor, disadvantaged and downtrodden that the world has ever seen. She, in many instances, almost single-handedly brought greater attention to poverty and the needs of the poor.
And given the mission of the Centers for Disease Control, there is no greater way or better way to draw attention to its continuing needs than to have one of its buildings named in honor of Mother Teresa.
Mr. Speaker, all of us have most recently participated in the celebration of the life of Rosa Parks, and many of us actually were able to attend her funeral. This dainty freedom fighter who defied years of tradition and the law in refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to a white person, this calculated act of defiance helped to spark the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in desegregation of public accommodations throughout the South, brought about the Voting Rights Act of the 1960s, actually fostered development of the War on Poverty, and put America in a serious position to look hard at the health care needs of the poor and disadvantaged in its country.
So naming a building at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help us to recognize that health care needs are still unmet; that there are still great disparities that need to be corrected; that there are still areas of research which need to be conducted. And so, Mr. Speaker, I am indeed pleased to join with the gentlewoman from Kentucky in cosponsoring this resolution and urge its passage.
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