[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       POLITICS OF INSENSITIVITY

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, all Members of this House 
should be saddened today by the remarks yesterday of majority leader 
Dick Armey in his criticism and his remarks about the President's visit 
to South Carolina today to dedicate the new chapel at Mount Zion A.M.E. 
Church, a church that was firebombed and burned to the ground, 1 of 49 
black churches burned to the ground in this country.
  For the majority leader to turn this into politics is exactly the 
kind of politics that we do not need in this country: the politics of 
insensitivity, of extremism and of race.
  The President is doing what any President of this country must do, 
and that is to bring us together to heal this Nation and to get us to 
face this national horror.

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  The President is doing what any President must do to bring the full 
force and effect of law enforcement against these crimes, against these 
bombings. The President is doing what any President of this nation must 
do, and that is to get this Nation to challenge, to challenge us 
against these horrible crimes. The gentleman from Texas [Mr. Armey] is 
doing what no majority leader should do, and that is to make politics 
out of a national terror.

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