[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 144 (Thursday, October 21, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                MOSELEY-BRAUN FOR NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR

  (Ms. McKINNEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, the last time I checked, a flag is made of 
cloth, not carved in stone. But it appears, Mr. Speaker, that the heart 
of at least one Senator is carved in stone and it is stone cold.
  I have long known that some of my brothers and sisters in the South 
are still fighting the Civil War. But guess what, Mr. Speaker, the 
United States won. The Confederacy lost.
  The South shall rise again. But this time under the leadership of a 
New South coalition that unites us rather than tears us apart. But some 
folks particularly in North Carolina did not get the message.
  Like the slaves who did not get the word until years later that they 
were free, it appears that Jesse Helms still has his heart in 
Confederate bondage. From fighting the Confederate flag on the Senate 
floor to singing ``Dixie'' in Senate elevators, Senator Helms has 
ricocheted the Senate back to the Tara Plantation of ``Gone With the 
Wind.'' Thank goodness those days really are gone with the wind.
  Carol Moseley-Braun could be our next ambassador to New Zealand if 
President Clinton stands by her.

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