Jack Kingston: “I am saddened and disturbed by those who are in opposition of this legislation. I would ask, Mr. Speaker, is there a…”

“I am saddened and disturbed by those who are in opposition of this legislation. I would ask, Mr. Speaker, is there a road, is there a bridge, is there a building in the United States of America that was built by one person, one personality, one act of one man? I would say certainly there is not. Yet routinely we in this body name roads, bridges and buildings after one person. It is symbolic. It does not say there was no one else involved in it. It only says here was somebody who was typical of the spirit of that group or that organization. Mr. Speaker, we cannot name every building after everybody. It is too bad because we know all great acts and great institutions have myriads players. That is what we are doing today, not to slight others, but to commemorate many through naming it for one person. Mr. Speaker, I would ask my colleagues who are opposed to this to abandon their pettiness and ask them to abandon a little veiled partisanship that seems to be taking place.”