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House GOP’s Virginia Foxx: Republicans Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s - Seriously??
Foxx [R-NC]: Republicans 'Passed Civil Rights Bills Back In The 60s Without Very Much Help' From Democrats [Think Progress]:
[...] Foxx then extended her claims of the GOP's progressive history to the issue of civil rights. "Just as we were the people who passed the civil rights bills back in the '60s without very much help from our colleagues across the aisle," said Foxx. "They love to engage in revisionist history." When Foxx finally yielded her time on the floor, Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) passionately rebuked her:
CARDOZA: Today, what I’m hearing on the floor really takes the cake. The gentlelady from North Carolina, in her statement just now, indicated that the Republican GOP had passed the Civil Rights Act legislation with almost no help from the Democrats. I can’t believe my ears. It was the Kennedy and Johnson administration where we passed that Great Society legislation. It was over the objections of people like Jesse Helms from the gentlewoman’s state that we passed that civil rights legislation. John Lewis…
FOXX: Would, would the gentleman yield?
CARDOZA: No, I will not yield. John Lewis, a member of this House, was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge to get that civil rights legislation passed. Tell John Lewis that he wasn’t part of getting that legislation passed.
When she was given a chance to respond, Foxx could only say that Jesse Helms wasn’t elected to the Senate until 1972. [...]
Ryan Rudominer, National Press Secretary of the DCCC released this response: "It speaks volumes that House Republicans would send out one of its top lieutenants -- Virginia Foxx -- to make such an absurd statement about the Civil Rights era given her own history of making such racially offensive remarks."
To refresh your memory…
Virginia 'Brer' Foxx Drops 'Tar Baby' Bomb [Washington Post]:
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) dropped the racially charged term "tar baby" on the House floor. Foxx said, "I thought about just a common sense way to describe this to people: the Democrats have a tar baby on their hands and they simply can't get away from it. They are stuck on this problem."
Virginia Foxx: Matthew Shepard's Murder Not a Hate Crime [Washington Post]:
Rep. Virginia Foxx said the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in 1998 was not a hate crime. "It's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing [hate crimes] bills," Foxx said on the House floor during debate on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. And guess who was in the House gallery to hear Foxx say this? Matthew Shepard's mother.
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