George Miller: “All Members of this House should be saddened today by the remarks yesterday of majority leader Dick Armey in his…”

“All Members of this House should be saddened today by the remarks yesterday of majority leader Dick Armey in his criticism and his remarks about the President's visit to South Carolina today to dedicate the new chapel at Mount Zion A.M.E. Church, a church that was firebombed and burned to the ground, 1 of 49 black churches burned to the ground in this country. For the majority leader to turn this into politics is exactly the kind of politics that we do not need in this country: the politics of insensitivity, of extremism and of race. The President is doing what any President of this country must do, and that is to bring us together to heal this Nation and to get us to face this national horror. The President is doing what any President must do to bring the full force and effect of law enforcement against these crimes, against these bombings. The President is doing what any President of this nation must do, and that is to get this Nation to challenge, to challenge us against these horrible crimes. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] is doing what no majority leader should do, and that is to make politics out of a national terror.”