[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1152]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. EARL F. HILLIARD

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 17, 1998

  Mr. HILLIARD. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, June 11, 1998, I was 
unavoidably detained in a meeting with Attorney General Janet Reno, 
Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, Martin Luther King III, Julian 
Bond, Revered Shuttlesworth, Alabama State Senator Hank Sanders, and 
others. The meeting was held in regard to discrimination and 
intimidation being committed by the FBI and U.S. district attorneys 
against African-American voters. This pattern of intimidation was 
carried out by continuously bringing charges of voter fraud and 
prosecuting people in Alabama's predominately African-American 
counties.
  If I had been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall vote No. 
229, ``aye'' on rollcall vote No. 230, and ``aye'' on rollcall vote No. 
231, a very important vote on House Resolution 446 which condemns the 
brutal slaying that occurred recently in Jasper, TX.

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