the helen keller national center is living up to the legacy of its namesake, helen keller is the epitome of perseverance. she overcame every obstacle to lead a successful life that impacted the lives of so many. she once wrote, a happy life consists not in the absence but in the mastery of hardships. there is so much we can learn from helen keller's commitment to serving others, despite her own trials. this bipartisan bill will ensure that the helen keller national center continues to help deaf-blind youth and adults triumph over adversity just as helen keller did more than 50 years ago. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and in doing, empower those who are deaf-blind to live full, successful and independent lives. this bill will ensure -- help ensure these students and adults have all the resources they need to research their fullest potential. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from virginia, mr. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume, the gentleman from new york, mr. suozzi. the spe

and i remember learning about helen keller.dy learns about helen keller, you know, a disabled person who overcame her handicaps and became famous. but people don't learn in school and young people don't learn in school what we want them to learn what we do books like "a young people's history of united states," that helen keller was a socialist. she was a labor organizer. she refused to cross a picket line that was picketing a theater showing a play about her. and so there are these alternate heroes in american history. there's fannie lou hamer and bob moses. there are the heroes of the civil rights movement. there are a lot of people who are obscure, who are not known. we have it in this "young people's history." we have a young hero who was sitting on the bus in montgomery, alabama, refused to leave the front of the bus. and that was before rosa parks. i mean, rosa parks is justifiably famous for refusing to leave her seat and she got arrested and that was the beginning of the montgomery bus boycott and really the beginning o

like helen keller said once, a lone, you can do so little.ether -- alone you can do so little, but together we can do so much. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor stefani and congratulations again to korean center inc. >> colleagues, we're going to celebrate another milestone. today, i'm pleased to extend a heartfelt congratulations to the san francisco black firefighters association for 50 years of service. and we're going to give a couple of honors out this afternoon, so if we could have the president, antwaan davis who will say a few words after we call up awardees but i want to say one, that this is an amazing organization. really fighting for equity within the fire department. one by demonstrating exemplary service for the members of the department for so many years but also for their work to make sure that the doors are open for people of color and for black people to become members of the firefighter and the fire department here in san francisco. so, we are proud to recognize and honor the association whose prin

the clerk: h.r. 1433, a bill to re-authorize the helen keller national center for youths and adults who are deaf-blind. h.r. 4009, a bill to authorize the georgetown african-american historic landmark project and tour to establish a commemorative work in the district of columbia and its environments and for other purposes. h.r. 4358, a bill to amend the wild and scenic rivers act to designate segments of the little manatee river as a component of the wild and scenic rivers system and for other purposes. h.r. 6265, a bill to require a strategy by the united states government to disrupt and dismantle the captagon trade and narcotics networks of bashar al-assad in syria. had r.6846, a bill to require and re review sanctions with respect to russian kleptocrats and human rights abuses. h.r. 7240, a bill to re-authorized read act -- re-authorize the read act. a bill to require congressional notification prior to payments of department of state rewards using cryptocurrencies, authorized by the department of digital office security and the department of state and for other purposes. h.r. 8453,