Steve Cohen actually said...

"It was using Black people for the political power of southerners who wanted to have that power mostly to keep slavery legal."

"H.R. 40 would create a commission to study the history of slavery in America, the role of the Federal and State governments in supporting slavery and racial discrimination."

"Our colleague, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who is a member of the subcommittee, is the current lead sponsor of this legislation."

"Back in 2007, I introduced H. Res. 194--that was my first year in Congress--an apology by the House of Representatives for its role in perpetuating both slavery and its noxious offspring, Jim Crow."