[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15884]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       STAND UP TO THE EXTREMISTS

  (Mr. PASCRELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise personally ashamed at the political 
sideshow in front of the White House perpetrated by Ms. Palin and 
Senator Cruz and his congressional allies. For Members to protest 
against the consequences of a shutdown they, themselves, caused is the 
height of hypocrisy. The truth is we could pass a clean continuing 
resolution today and get our government back to work.
  I was outraged by some of the imagery we saw from the Tea Partiers 
who were rallying in front of the White House. Calling for the 
President's impeachment not a year after his reelection by a large 
majority of the American people and continued lies about the 
President's religion, including one participant saying, Put the Quran 
down, have no place in civil discourse.
  But I was especially disturbed by the waving of the Confederate flag, 
a symbol of racial oppression, being waved at our first African-
American President.
  I call on my colleagues to condemn this hateful rhetoric and to 
renounce these fringe voices within their coalition.
  This is a shameful display of Members on the other side of the aisle, 
and they ought to stand up--the majority--to the extremists in their 
own party, as we have with our own party, and stop trying to hold the 
government and full faith and credit of the United States Government 
hostage.

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