[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          ``SCHINDLER'S LIST''

  (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, while noting the misplaced outrage of other 
Members of this body, I would like to express my admiration and thanks 
to NBC and to Ford for airing ``Schindler's List'' this weekend. I 
would like to thank the filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, not only for his 
brilliant film but also for his recommendation, broadcast before the 
film began Sunday evening, that the film may not be suitable for young 
children. Perhaps my colleague from Oklahoma was still at the 
refrigerator at that time.
  I watched ``Schindler's List'' alongside my daughter and found it as 
moving a film as I have ever seen. Any allegation that any aspect of 
this story is gratuitous or improper would be laughable if it were not 
so sad. Our own great Nation is still plagued by hate crimes 221 years 
after being founded as a nation of freedom and equality. We watch with 
horror as churches and synagogues are burned and cemeteries are 
desecrated in our communities.
  Mr. Speaker, the best way to fight hatred and intolerance is with 
truth about the most egregious crime against humanity in modern 
history, the Holocaust.

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