[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            REJECTING RACISM

  (Mrs. BUSTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BUSTOS. Mr. Speaker, this week, we have seen a very clear 
difference between our two parties. I would remind my colleagues that 
this is the year 2016. It is not 1916. It is not 1816.
  We, as a Nation, have come so far. But there was a time when I, as a 
woman, would not have been allowed to vote, let alone speak on the 
floor of this Chamber.
  There was a time when our friends on the Congressional Black Caucus 
or our friends in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, also, would not 
have been welcomed right here. You know what, we are better than that.
  We know that the diversity of our Nation makes us greater. So 
whenever racism rears its ugly head, all of us, Democrats and 
Republicans, have an obligation to reject it.
  Mr. Speaker, I have been very disturbed to see so many of my 
Republican colleagues trying to tiptoe around the offensive behavior of 
the new leader of their party, Donald Trump.
  I urge all of my colleagues to do the right thing and reject racist 
policies without any ifs, ands, or buts.

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