Marcy Kaptur: “Let me go back to the Civil War. The comment made about the Civil War was driven by economics, come on, give me a break.…”

“Let me go back to the Civil War. The comment made about the Civil War was driven by economics, come on, give me a break. It was not economics; it was slavery. Let us go on to another comment. The Middle East problems are because of trade. Jimminy Christmas, somebody has to study some history here before those kinds of comments are made to our colleagues. Clearly there are economic issues anywhere in the world; but the economic issues, contrary to what the gentlewoman from Ohio has said, they are not the driving problem in the Middle East. What I would suggest to the gentlewoman, with all due respect, is to take a look at the religious history of those countries, and I think she will find more of the fundamental problem in the Middle East has to do with the religious differences and the religious histories of those regions of the world than it does whether or not America allows their President to have authority on Fast Track.”