Political Quotes

“I tell the gentleman, I have heard that question raised before. You removed Mr. King from the committees after 10 years of comments, speeches, and support for groups that did not comport with what we said yesterday in terms of rejecting bigotry and prejudice and hate. Ten years. {time} 1145 We have now twice taken action to make clear that hate and prejudice and bigotry are not the policies of this Congress, of this country, and should not be the policy of any of our Members, rhetorically. Debating policy, having differences of opinion are clear. I don't know whether the gentleman heard my speech on the floor, but I could not, I think, have articulated more forcefully that anti-Semitism is unacceptable, that anti-Semitism has led to grievous results, unacceptable results, the Holocaust, of course, being the most horrific. I made that very clear. The resolution made that very clear. And yes, it did include other forms and other objects of hate and prejudice and bigotry. And I was disappointed that 23 of your Members voted against it. Every one of my Members, without exception, voted for that resolution. So that resolution, I thought, that got over 400 of us, spoke very strongly to our opposition to anti-Semitism, to racism, to sexism, to Islamophobia. And I haven't seen any resolution on the floor of the House when you were in charge that responded to the President of the United States stoking Islamophobia. I saw no resolution.…”