....to hold political office in the Carolinas?

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, R-NC:

FOXX: ... and actually the GOP has been the leader in starting
good environmental programs in this, in this country, uh, just as we
were the people who passed the Civil Right bills back in the '60's,
without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle. They love
to engage in revisionist history.


Congressman Dennis Cardoza, D-CA:

CARDOZA: Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the seven years
that I've been here and in the years that I've watched this congress
beforehand, I sometimes watch the floor and I can't believe what I'm
hearing. I can't believe my ears.

Today, what I’m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The
gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated
that the Republican GOP had passed the Civil Rights Act legislation with
almost no help from the Democrats. I can’t believe my ears. It was the
Kennedy and Johnson administration where we passed that Great Society
legislation. It was over the objections of people like Jesse Helms from
the gentlewoman’s state that we passed that civil rights legislation.
John Lewis…

FOXX: Would, would the gentleman yield?

CARDOZA: No, I will not yield. John Lewis, a member of this House,
was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge to get that civil rights
legislation passed. Tell John Lewis that he wasn’t part of getting that
legislation passed.

I sometimes cannot believe what I hear on this House floor. And
will tell you today, that I will stand by these statements and I am very
proud of what my party has done to advance civil rights legislation in
the United States of America. I reserve the balance of my time.

FOXX: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd just like to point out to the
gentleman from California that Senator Helms was not elected to the
United States Senate until 1972 and was not in the Congress when the
civil rights legislation was passed in the '60's.






--
If you are flajim, herring, loogy, GC boater, johnson, topbassdog, rob,
achmed the sock puppet, or one of a half dozen others, you're wasting
your time by trying to *communicate* with me through rec.boats, because,
well, you are among the permanent members of my dumbfoch dumpster, and I
don't read the vomit you post, except by accident on occasion. As
always, have a nice, simple-minded day.