Congressional leaders ceremonially broke ground on the Capitol Visitor Center. The center was designed to better educate the public on the legislative branch and the people behind it. The House participated in a ceremonial Joint Session of Congress in Federal Hall in New York City. The session was held in remembrance of the victims and events of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, the House created a new permanent standing committee, the Committee on Homeland Security. The standing committee replaced the Select Committee on Homeland Security. The House formally received a statue of Po’Pay, a Pueblo religious leader, from the State of New Mexico. The event marked the first time each state was represented by two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress whose act of civil disobedience in 1955 galvanized the U.S. civil rights movement, became the first woman and the second black American to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Representative Nancy Pelosi of California was elected as the first woman Speaker of the House.