[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5909]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MIKE TYSON IS NO HERO

  (Mr. McINNIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, to my colleagues, as we know from our 
history, this country was built into the best country in the whole 
world, built on character, based on character, based on honesty, and 
based on integrity.
  With that in mind, I want you to note a very important date, that is 
this next Tuesday, June 20 when in New York a welcoming committee will 
give a hero's welcome to a convicted rapist, Mike Tyson. This is what 
the Wall Street Journal says.
  Enough is enough. Mr. Tyson has expressed no remorse for his 
unfortunate encounter with Ms. Washington, the young black woman he was 
convicted of raping. He has been quoted as saying, ``I like to hurt 
women when I make love to them. It gives me pleasure.''
  And now this country is going to give him a hero's welcome. I wonder 
if that welcoming committee is going to show up to welcome Captain 
O'Grady. I wonder if that welcoming committee could find time to honor 
the best teacher in New York State or the best teacher in Colorado or 
some of the highest graduates from our colleges across the country?
  Mike Tyson is a disgrace to this country, and in this American's 
opinion, he is no hero.


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