We appreciate this opportunity to honor the exceptional legacy she leaves, and to salute her distinguished contributions to the Los Angeles community.

During her tenure, the Board was faced with some of its most difficult challenges.

Barbara realized that these barriers to learning had to be removed.

Barbara understood, however, that more than cooling the classrooms would have to be done to help our children succeed.

Barbara always understood that the health of our educational institutions is closely linked to the health of our communities.

As Barbara prepares to leave the Board of Education, she can take great satisfaction in knowing that she leaves the district in better shape than when she was first elected.

As a result of her tireless efforts, classrooms that were once too hot, have been retrofitted with air conditioners creating a more conducive learning environment for the school children.

We are proud to join her many friends and colleagues today in honoring and celebrating her many years of exemplary service.

The bill will offer consistent, reliable method of treatment for uninsured and underinsured women fighting breast or cervical cancer.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of the bipartisan Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act, H.R. 1070.

This important legislation will help women beat back the ravages of breast and cervical cancer and save lives.

The bipartisan Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Act takes the vital next step to offer lifesaving treatment to cancer victims.

I am not pleased with the Republican leadership which has given inadequate attention to this bill.

This bill has enough co-sponsors to pass. We should pass this legislation and help save the lives of women.

If we truly want to have an impact on reducing youth violence, I urge my colleagues to work with their local communities to initiate the kind of grass-roots assessment that Salinas did because we won't find the solutions to youth violence here in Washington.

Mr. Speaker, sex, drugs and rock and roll were condemned thirty years ago and here we are today talking about trying to legislate morality when we should really be talking about are education and prevention programs to stop youth violence.

Salinas' 'Framework for Violence Prevention' is really a 'one size fits all' approach that any community in the country can follow to find their own solutions for youth violence.

The Talmud states that 'He who does charity and justice is as if he filled the whole world with kindness.'