Haiti Debt Relief And Earthquake Recovery Act Of 2010

Floor Speech

I want to thank the team that worked on this effort. Of course, that would be the honorable Chair of the subcommittee, Mr. Meeks. It would be the Honorable Maxine Waters. It would also be Mr. Miller, the ranking member on the subcommittee and, of course, the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Bachus.

Madam Speaker, I must tell you that my comments have been revised because I cannot allow this moment to go by without speaking to the comments that were made by Mr. Bachus.

He spoke to our hearts and he spoke truth. It's not easy to stand in the well of the House of Representatives and speak the kind of truth that we heard. A son of the South and a Representative from Alabama stood in the well of the House, and he spoke the truth about one of the greatest atrocities ever imposed upon humankind and about how one country, in an effort to extricate and liberate itself, had to pay for the very liberation that it accorded itself. It meant something to me to hear this son of the South speak this kind of truth in the well of the Congress of the United States of America.

So I commend you and I salute you.

Mr. Miller, I thank you as well.

The two of you deserve to have it said that you truly spoke truth to power tonight. Thank you.

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