[altroots] Rep. McKinney Special Order Censored???

Rep. McKinney Special Order Censored???
By Rep. Cynthia McKinney
September 11, 2005 
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I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon,
but I don't see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was
chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President's
motives. I didn't question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of
actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety net programs, to
rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of us. This transcript
directly from the Congressional Record is mangled and omits that word!!!! I
can't believe this.

Please read the attachment (I don't normally do attachments) and see if I
missed it. If I hear back from you that it is, indeed, missing, then I will
say the word repeatedly on the House Floor upon my return to force them to
put my words as I say them in the Congressional Record.

In this talk, I discuss Katrina, the State of Black America, the State of
Hispanic America, poverty in America, and the Katrina timelines being
developed that will keep us from falling victim to the White House spin. In
addition to explosive information given to me from investigative journalists
and whistleblowers, there is one particularly pernicious development taking
place: bioweapons labs under water with who knows what having been released
into the environment. People desperate for jobs must be informed what the
heck has been unleashed in the devastated areas as a result of Katrina.
Anyone involved in cleanup must have this information before entering New
Orleans. I shudder to ponder all the ramifications of Katrina. Although I
didn't finish my remarks, and I'm told they also shut the microphone off as
I was concluding my remarks--something I don't remember ever having been
done to a Member before--I think you get the message here that high crimes
and more than misdemeanors have been visited upon the American people.

THE TREMENDOUS CHALLENGES THAT FACE OUR COUNTRY -- (House of Representatives
- September 08, 2005)

[Page: H7801] GPO's PDF

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The SPEAKER pro tempore (Miss McMorris). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of January 4, 2005, the gentlewoman from Georgia (Ms. McKinney) is
recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader.

Ms. McKINNEY. Madam Speaker, I have got a lot of papers and a lot of
posters. One hour will in no way accommodate all that needs to be said
tonight about the tremendous challenges that face our country today,
including how we conduct ourselves in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

While my remarks tonight in no way should be construed as encompassing all
of my thoughts on the very important issues that I discuss tonight, just
mark this down as a start.

First, let me say that I am especially proud of the way the people of my
district and of this country have wrapped their arms around the victims of
Hurricane Katrina. At this time, we have a healthy contingent of expert
Georgians in the traumatized gulf States, and we have received thousands of
Katrina's victims into our cities, churches, and homes.

I have come to this floor on many occasions. People around the world have
commented on how shocked they are to see such poverty in America. While
cities and localities pass anti-panhandling measures that criminalize
begging tourists and visitors in downtown areas asking for help, Hurricane
Katrina washed away America's veneer of populist opportunity, a country that
has overcome its racist, slave-holding past, a country ready for world
dominion because it has learned how to uplift the human spirit at home.

Katrina, in images as stark and undeniable as could be, has laid bare the
Republican lie that its policies promote growth and prosperity for all
Americans and leave no child behind, while Katrina put into our living rooms
and the world's living rooms the cruel hoax that has been played on America
and those who love America by the ruthless sybaritic power player elites who
are as responsible for the conditions endured by too many Americans as they
are for the embarrassing and breathtaking incompetencies we all witnessed
just before Labor Day.

Almost 30,000 New Orleans households live on less than $10,000 per year.
More babies and young kids are going hungry in our country. Eleven percent
of our families experienced hunger in 2003. One million more Americans are
living in poverty today than there were 1 year ago. Income distribution has
become obscenely skewed toward the rich during the Bush years. In Manhattan,
the poor make two cents for each dollar that the rich make. This places
Manhattan on par with Namibia for income disparity.

Interestingly, in the financial capital of the world, New York City, the
Bronx is the poorest urban county in the country, and New York State is
being depleted of its middle class.

America is being depleted of its middle class. Over 50 percent of America's
income goes to the top 20 percent of households. With even more tax cuts for
the wealthy on the horizon, coupled with real budget cuts for the programs
that are forced to take care of more and more Americans, the situation can
only be expected to get worse, sadly.

Incomes for 95 percent of American households are flat or falling. Only the
top 5 percent are experiencing the growth that we hear the Republicans talk
about. 

Now, I have got tons of documentation to offer for all of the statistics
that we cite, but let me take a moment and reiterate where we are for all
the people who are listening tonight.

[Time: 18:15] 

Let me recall for just a moment the America they might not know but that
more of us are coming all too well to know.

I will start with this poster, which depicts a black man hanging from a
tree. The caption says "The body of Robert McNair is seen here as residents
and schoolchildren in the Georgetown community saw it between about 7 a.m.
and 9 a.m. last Thursday.'' This was on the front page of the Jackson,
Mississippi, Advocate the week of October 23 to 29 when I was in Mississippi
for a speaking engagement. This was what I saw.

Sadly, it is what the children in the neighborhood saw, a black man hanging
from a tree. A lynching. That is 2003. I am not talking about 1903. This is
2003. Sadly, in 2005, we have two lynchings being investigated in the State
of Georgia, my home State, and both of them are supposed to have been
suicides. In this story it was reported that this poor Mr. Robert McNair
committed suicide, hanging from a tree.

When I come to the floor and do these monthly talks, some way or other we
get around to the state of black America because it is important for us to
understand that there are many Americans, and some of those Americans we do
not see and we do not know. But we need to know how all Americans live so
that we can make sure that no American is left behind.


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