[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 120 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               EXTREMISM

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I want to get this correct. I just heard 
the Democrat Party say that the Republicans who freed the slaves in the 
Civil War were radical extremists. I just want to make sure we got that 
right in the Record. The Republicans who led the fight against slavery 
were radical extremists? Very interesting concept.
  I thought that that chapter of our Nation's history was a sad one, 
but unfortunately a necessary one.
  I think it is a real mischaracterization when you try to say because 
someone is saying the Government does not have all the answers, that 
you say that that means that they are extremist.
  Look at the Washington, DC, school system. Washington, DC, schools 
are not even open. In fact in our office, we have a student from 
Washington, DC, because she cannot go to her school because the inept, 
incompetent, overspending, potentially corrupt government system run by 
the U.S. Congress to a large degree in Washington, DC, cannot even 
open.
  I think you can balance out the best of government and the best of 
the private sector and do what is best not for political parties but 
for the children of America and education.

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