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Honoring and Praising the NAACP on the Occasion of its 98th Anniversary

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 12, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Arts, Entertainment, and History

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Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, H. Con. Res. 44 is and should be about the NAACP, but it is also about a history of a struggle, not just the 98 years that the NAACP has been pushing and prodding this body, the courts and the executive branch for fairness for all people, all people in the United States, but for the history of this struggle. Whether it is the Marbury v. Madison decision, or the dreaded Dred Scott decision, the Court has had to be prodded by the public, the Congress has had to be prodded by the public, and, yes, just as with Harry S. Truman, the President has had to be prodded by the public. No organization in American history has sustained the consistent legacy of being an effective prod to the government greater than the NAACP.

So I join with my colleagues on a bipartisan and undoubtedly bicameral basis to celebrate this 98 years and the struggle that it represents.

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