Andre Carson: “certainly I would add my praise and congratulations to the honorable gentlewoman from California for bringing this…”

“certainly I would add my praise and congratulations to the honorable gentlewoman from California for bringing this incredible, this very vital and very necessary and much deserved issue before the United States Congress, and that is to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Honorable Dorothy Height. Dorothy Height, the president of the National Council of Negro Women, succeeded in that position from an icon of this world, that was Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, who created the National Council of Negro Women, who was adviser to several Presidents and so was Dorothy Height. It is not a coincidence, I do not believe, that Dorothy's last name is Height, because she has scaled great heights in this country to enable people of color to get their rightful place at the tables of justice and equal opportunity. There are countless branches of the National Council of Negro Women around the country and around the world and their emphasis is phenomenal. It is very scriptural in terms of doing for these, the very least of these. In Indianapolis, we have a Mental Health Gift Lift which allows the community to come together to give gifts to those who are mentally challenged. Mary McLeod Bethune, and then Dr. Height, talks about love, leaving love as a testament. Dorothy Height is an individual that I feel very blessed that I am able to touch her hand in my lifetime. She was there when we conferred a medal on Rosa Parks.”