[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 130 (Thursday, July 23, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H3702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     STOP THE CANCEL CULTURE TRAIN

  (Mr. WEBER of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WEBER of Texas. Madam Speaker, the cancel culture train, a/k/a/ 
H.R. 7573 that passed yesterday, was wrong on a deep level.
  I am not going to get on that cancel culture train that says we have 
to do away with any mention or remembrance of everybody or everything 
that we don't agree with; or that might have said something that we 
don't like, didn't like; or that might have stood for something that we 
don't stand for, didn't stand for.
  The First Amendment was put in the Constitution to prevent exactly 
this. I am not going to get on the cancel culture train because the 
next thing you know, I will get thrown off for saying something that 
somebody didn't like or didn't agree with or, Lord forbid, that I would 
do something that somebody didn't like or didn't agree with.
  Madam Speaker, if we are going to do this, what happened yesterday, 
then the building names, street names, plaques, and all remembrances of 
Democrats that Judge Gohmert just read about need to be removed from 
every street, every building, anything that honors them.
  Madam Speaker, that is a dangerous slope to be on, the cancel culture 
train. People better sit up and take notice.

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