Melvin Watt

This school would become the Alice Palmer Memorial Institute.

Dr. Brown was a natural leader at an early age: at 12 she organized a kindergarten department at her church and at 14 she was chosen as orator for her minister's 15th anniversary.

Dr. Brown was a founding member of the North Carolina State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, an organization dedicated to the betterment of African-American womanhood.

Ultimately the State granted $50,000 for the establishment of a new facility for the training of disadvantaged African-American girls.

In 1987 the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial opened as a state historic site in North Carolina and is the only one to honor an African American.

Much of Dr. Brown's success can be attributed to the founding of the Palmer Memorial Institute but she was also involved in various community and civic organizations.

Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a granddaughter of slaves and a native of Henderson, North Carolina, was born in June of 1883.

I wanted to express that after hearing a good part of the debate today my opinion that the debate has been high quality and civil on both sides, and there are two issues that I think from the debate so far need to be still addressed that I…

We ought to be here trying to do something about education, and, instead, the Republicans are trying to get out of town and go home. The education issue has been on the table all this year, ever since the President made his State of the…

first of all, let me say, I cannot think of anybody other than this Speaker of the House that I would less like to yield martial law to. The way this House has been managed, if we give him martial law authority, God knows what might could…

Mr. Speaker, I find myself in a very interesting position today, one that in the 6 years that I have been in this House is unprecedented. Because I am here defending the work product of the committee of jurisdiction in this case. On May…

Let us get to what we are really debating here today. We are debating the failed trade policy of the United States of America. We are going to run a $200 billion trade deficit this year. That means we are going to export about 4 million…

I think that the underlying legislation legislating on an appropriations bill is inappropriate. I am opposed to the underlying legislation. But if the underlying legislation on an appropriations bill is appropriate, then so would the…

I want to address one of the legal issues that has been raised by the Republican majority. The gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Skaggs) will talk about the constitutional issue, but one of the issues that the majority has raised is that the…

Mr. Chairman, I have to say that after listening to this debate, my colleague from Florida, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, is just as much in denial on the floor of the House as he is in the…

Mr. Chairman, I know Lou Stokes well enough to know that by now he is very uncomfortable, and I am not going to take five minutes making him more uncomfortable, because the more amazing things we say about him, the more uncomfortable Lou…

I obviously object to the process that is being followed, but there is something that is behind that process that I object to that I want to call our attention to. We had a debate about it on this floor. This bill allows housing…

I regret that the sponsor of this legislation, the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen) left the floor, because I have the greatest amount of respect for her and I am sure that her intentions in offering this legislation are…

I have very strong feelings about the bill itself. It is an unprecedented piece of legislation. It is an unconstitutional piece of legislation, and it has some severe unintended consequences. I do not want to talk about the bill in this…

I think it was my inartful articulation of what I was trying to say. I understood that these 8 States have their laws protected going forward, but I appreciate the gentleman clarifying that. I was not trying to mislead anyone on that point.

in 1994 we got a new majority in this body. They came saying that they were part of a conservative revolution. They were going to be conservative. Who would have ever guessed that that conservative group would have introduced 118…

Mr. Speaker, I am rising in opposition to the rule on this bill. I rise in opposition to the rule because the Committee on Rules ruled that an amendment that I attempted to offer on the floor was not in order. I think the Committee on…

It surprises a number of my colleagues on the Committee on Banking and Financial Services that the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Baker) and I are quite often on the same side of financial services issues. But I have got to jump ship on him…

if in fact the amendment was nearly as gentle and kind as the gentleman has portrayed it, I think I could get there with him, but that is not what the language of this amendment says. It says, we are undoing prior consent orders, we are…

Let me stop the gentleman in the middle of his sentence, because that is a big ``if,'' if there are no further constitutional grounds. The ones that I am talking about are where there is a constitutional ground. And what this amendment…