Speaker, I rise today in honor of the upcoming
holiday remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As a lifelong activist fighting for immigrants, civil and human
rights, and now as a Member of Congress, Dr. King has been a deep and
central inspiration throughout my life. His work has helped me to make
possible the path that I have taken, from being a 16-year-old immigrant
girl who came to this country by herself for college, to serving, now,
as the first Indian-American woman elected to the United States House
of Representatives--and it is the courage and the fight of Dr. King
that made my journey possible. I knew of Dr.
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