[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17798]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                PASS HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 1999

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is simply a matter of 
justice. Today the House of Representatives has an opportunity to fully 
legislate, and that is to support the motion to instruct to pass real 
hate crimes prevention legislation.
  In the midst of all of this, Mr. Speaker, we will be having a number 
of frivolous motions, because our good friends on the other side are 
not serious about making a national statement against hate. They have 
fought us at every turn in not passing the Hate Crimes Prevention Act 
of 1999, James Byrd was not enough. Matthew Shepherd was not enough. I 
do not know who will be next. I call upon the goodwill of this Congress 
to pass this motion to instruct.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, it is a matter of justice. I asked the FBI to 
tell me whether or not the indictment or the trials and tribulations of 
Mr. Lee regarding the Los Alamos spy incident was a matter of racial 
profiling? Yes, it is a matter of justice. And I expect the FBI to 
respond to my inquiry as to whether or not because you are of a certain 
origin in this country, you are a spy or you are trying to undermine 
the United States of America.

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