This Congress, in 1964 and 1965, this Congress, with bipartisan majorities and the courage of a Southern President who had previously supported segregation, demonstrated the courage and the conviction to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
Highlighting past Congressional courage in passing civil rights legislation.
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I hope and certainly urge Chief Riley to be tough, to be swift, and to have a zero tolerance policy, as Richard Pennington and I did when we were in leadership positions in New Orleans.
We note the attacks on this progress. They come in the form of voter suppression – voter purges, attacks on democracy, attacks on equal opportunity in DE&I, banning of books, attacks to try to thwart this progress.
When we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of American apartheid.
We had to completely rebuild the department. I said at the time that we were going to tear it down brick by brick and we were going to rebuild it brick by brick.
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