as port of -- part of that celebration, three great americans will be honored in the game, muhammad ali, bill cosby, and hank aaron. they will receive awards as individuals who, quote, whose lives are emblematic of the spirit of the civil rights movement. mr. ali was 10-time heavyweight champion boxer. since he left the sport, he's engaged in many humanitarian efforts and traveled the world on good will missions. mr. cosby has spent the last five decades as a comedian, entertainer, and i would add philosopher. his life has been a testament to proper handling of race issues. this extraordinary man just went about being the extraordinary person he is he has entertained he has inspired and he has taught me, for one. for most of my life. he is the first comedian from whom i bought an album, as i recall, it was "co-russell, my brother, whom i slept with." and i throveed man ever since. got to see him recently in concert in tyler and was as excited as ever. what a delightful man. the way he causes us to realize we all have the same -- so many of the same strange enigmatic traits, fears, aspir

. >> i am muhammad ali, you know? i apologize. i apologize to you on the air.r name is humid ali. you have a right to be called whatever you want. i apologize to you. >> he's appeared in several critically acclaimed films such as "deliverance" and runway train for which he received another academy award nomination. >> i'm right here. come on. going nowhere. come on. >> voight has always maintained high standards in his film work by choosing meaningful parts that promote worthy causes. >> mr. president with, all respect, sir, what you're asking can't be done. >> mr. president? >> get back, george. get back. do not tell me it can't be done. >> good 0 to see you. jon, jon voight. >> how are you doing? >> i'm doing good. >> a staunch supporter of our troops and himself a veteran of the army are, his extensive charitable work includes support of the center of friends for american veterans. it has a special bod and affinity with jon voight because he has been a financial supporter of the organization's programs in support of homeless veterans. >> ladies and gentleme

your name is muhammad ali. you have the right to be caught with everyone. apologize to you. >> he appeared in several critically acclaimed films, such as "deleveraged" and "runaway train," for which she received another academy award nomination. >> , andrea >> vcome one. . >> what you're asking cannot be done. -- for which he received another academy award nomination. >> mr. president. >> get back, george, get back. >> do not tell me it cannot be done. >> good to see you. john, john voight. >> a staunch supporter of our troops and himself a veteran of the army reserve, he he gives help. the circle of friends or american veterans have a special bond an affinity with jon voight because he has been a supporter of homeless veterans. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jon voight. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you. do not tell me it cannot be done. [applause] sometimes, you make movies, and they are just so relevant, you know? i was -- i gave a speech this morning to the national republican congressional committee, and it was a success, thank go

and so let them make the case once as muhammad ali said after he fought joe frazier to a tie in 15 rounds, was this, you tied how come you're still the world champ, you've got to whoop the champ. the champ is free enterprise, the champ is sound science, the champ is empirical data. the champ is the history of the united states succeeding by believing we can achieve and by making logical conclusions with the science we have and the economics we have. by the way, it's free enterprise not nationalization and let's add an extra czar or two to this list of 22, let's do the denationalization czar, the exit strategy czar, put those two people together and maybe they can get to work to eliminate the other czars and get us back to common sense. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. does the gentleman have a motion. ? mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question son the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly, the house

muhammad ali, why did he lose his title? because he would not go into the army, and he made very harsh and strong statements about it. the student nonviolent coordinating committee, the people who led the sit-ins and freedom rides. they said no black man should go 10,000 miles away to fight for so-called free come he -- freedom he doesn't enjoy in mississippi. and we are seeing this replayed again, vets came home and told the truth, and that's all they had to do is tell the truth about what they saw, what they witnessed, what they experienced, and the disillusionment of hugh, who called earlier, was a common feeling among people my age as they returned from vietnam. i had a brother in the service, i had classmates in the service, cousins in the service. they were so disillusioned that they joined the antiwar movement in droves. so john kerry, to take one famous example, john kerry denounced the war to the senate threw his medals at the congress, said i don't want these medals, and then tried to live it down, and i think to h

at the age of 11 her father had aspirations he was going to be this professional boxer, muhammad ali, but he was poor. he was marginalized. he didn't have a voice. rather than joining the local gym at the age of 11 he joined the local game and found himself in the better part of his life in and out of jail cells. her mother was sent to kindergarten just like maria put by the age of seven in second grade she dropped out of school. she found herself at home helping her mother make sure everyone else had clean clothes, enough to eat and at the age of 15 she made a bad decision. she got pregnant. by the age of 20 she had three little babies, a one-bedroom apartment and a husband in and out of jail and like so many women in the audience she was proud. she didn't want government assistance or pity so she worked. and as many of you can imagine what the second grade education her options were limited. so her first job maria would watch her mom get up at the crack of dawn to go clean these big beautiful homes. homes and communities just like this. holmes maria realized at the age of five or tw