Mr. Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to retiring member. Representative ELIZABETH FURSE. I have known Representative FURSE since we both successfully campaigned to become members of the House of Representatives in 1992amazingly only twenty years after she became a naturalized United States citizen. Born in Nairobi. Kenya. Congressman FURSE has spent her entire life fighting the tough fight. As a young white adolescent. she spent her childhood on the outside of South African society. Living in a segregated nation. "fitting in" was an unattainable goal due to the fact that her mother was one of the founding members of the Black Sash. a womans antiapartheid organization.
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