José E. Serrano: “Mr. Chairman, I will be very brief. I just wanted to rise in support of the gentleman's idea. On my wall here in my…”

“Mr. Chairman, I will be very brief. I just wanted to rise in support of the gentleman's idea. On my wall here in my Washington office I have two pictures in one special section. There is a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King and another one, a photograph of Bobby Kennedy. It was those two individuals that invited my generation into public service and into activism at the community level; Dr. King obviously through his work on the civil rights movement and bringing us all together, and it was Bobby Kennedy who taught my generation that politics and government service were in fact an honorable profession. I remember the time he came to the South Bronx and campaigned there when he was running for Senator of New York, how excited everybody was at his excitement about public service, to a generation of Americans, many from the minority community, who were turned off to the system and turned off to politics. Bobby Kennedy continues to be that figure in my life that I look to as one who paid the ultimate price for asking all of us to come together to stand up for what we believed in. So I think at a minimum the gentleman's idea is one that we should fulfill. I would hope as we move along we pay attention to this idea and that we do rename the Justice Department building in honor of Bobby Kennedy.”