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On the recordJanuary 15, 2019
I thank Mr. Nadler for yielding me the time. Madam Speaker, I want to thank Mr. Clyburn for bringing this resolution, and I want to thank the Republican leadership, Mr. McCarthy and company, who have condemned white supremacist and white nationalist language. It is important that we come together and condemn this language because, unfortunately, in Charlottesville, Virginia, we had Ku Klux Klan people and neo-Nazis marching and saying: ``Jews will not replace us in blood and soil.'' Our President said there were fine people on both sides. We must condemn bigotry, racial superiority, and hate whenever it raises its ugly head so that it will not come back to bite us once again. So today, hopefully, in the House, we have done that. I commend my Republican colleagues and Mr. Collins, and I hope that when hatred and bigotry once against surface, raises its head, which it will, that we will stand together as Americans to condemn it and not see fine people on both sides.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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