In the middle of the floor debate, House Speaker nancy pelosi gave remarks that prompted republican representative doug collins to request a vote on striking her words from the record. Mr. Speaker, the comments described in the resolution not just offensive to our colleagues. They were inconsistent with the principles and values upon which this nation was founded. In urging four female members of congress of color to go back where they came from, these comments were not only factually incorrect but were also deeply hurtful and divisive. These are shocking comments come even from an administration that rich children from the arms of warehousests and asylumseekers in facilities under inhumane conditions. We cannot let this moment passed without a forceful condemnation. Need i remind the speaker this is the same president who defended to be very fine people at the neonazi march on charlottesville, who denounced countries in the caribbean, and who declared a mexicanamerican judge born in the United States had a inherent conflict of interest against him. At every turn, democrats have denounced the comments from the white house but the silence from the other side of the aisle has been deafening. I hope that will finally changed today. Must speak with one voice to condemn the president s words and more importantly to condemn the sentiments behind them. The berg United States should be a beacon of hope and a refuge for those who need its protection. It should welcome with open arms those who embody our values and ideals. From our earliest days as a nation, we have welcomed people fleeing violence. Those who seek Economic Opportunity in a land whose diversity is one of its greatest strengths. Pursued aesident has campaign to build a literal and figurative wall around this nation. We must not turn our backs on our historic commitment immigration and rep, and women refuge and not fall prey to fear mongering that some immigrants who came here years ago are ok but those who come today because they are from shole countries are not ok. Martin luther king said i have a dream that my little children will live in a nation where they are not judge and the color of their skin, but the content of their character. The offensive words by the president undermine that during. Dream. They contradict that dream. Joine my colleagues will me in denouncing racism and supporting this resolution. I reserve the balance of my time. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from georgia is recognized for 30 minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is the third time i have stood in this this year on this floor about this subject and i have been clear at every juncture, racism and enticing and his him will find no refuge in the peoples house. We connect each other to speak truly, respectfully of our fellow members of congress and the president. Not because we agree with each other at all times but because of our respect for the americans who elect us. I come here today with much grief and many questions. The first may be procedural, but not trivial. The democrats wrote a resolution last night. It is on the floor today. I just have a question. What happened to the 72 hour role ensuring members have feedback . This never came here committee. Rules ifthe house have the democratic majority only follows them when politically convenient . It was brought up in the rules debate there was no consultation with even others who would want to be a part of this. Right todent has every be frustrated with congress for the work we have failed to do on multiple fronts including the border. I also understand his recent tweets make it hard to move forward. Attacks are like quicksand, a trap and the fetus before we know it. They distract us from legislating and that was true when the lawmaker imply last week a member of the house leadership was singled out, nearly elected newly elected women of color. One others were accused of enabling a racist system. When we see little to no concern from my colleagues across the aisle when a foreign flag is raised of an american facility or terrorists firebombing of the facility. It is true when the president of the u. S. Out of frustration tweeted this weekend and it is true of many comments coming from lawmakers today. Interesting for my chairman to say they have called the president out every time but also many times, and this is just a small listing of every week, they have not called out their own members for things i cannot read on this floor. Unfortunately, we are too quick writesolitical the second clause in this resolution affirms. The resolution is simply a lesson in political expediency. A prerequisite to our government by consent of the people which this committee confirms. We could not in this chamber you certainly which about other democratically elected leaders. We agree to let ideas compete for our votes and use rhetoric as a tool to build bridges instead of as a kindling to burn bridges down. A week goes by that we without members of the body issuing tweets that i could not and will not read from this forum without violating our rules. It is amazing some of my colleagues are using this platform to call for impeachment since many have been making that call since november of 2016. No justification then and definitely not now. Refuge for lawmakers who find themselves in the minority. Symptomum is a of a healthy democracy. I would like to lend my voices to the course of lawmakers supporting the first 15 clause of this but for the misguided title, we couldve had a suspension vote. To its credit, the restoration resolution committed to keeping open for asylum. On record as be opposing illegal immigration and i hope we can address the border crisis based on the foundation. You dont need a vote on this resolution to do that. You simply have to look at the border in the knowledge the crisis. We will still have a problem with this resolution. We cannot support a resolution that labels the president in this way and i will not. The rules that have governed this body since the first United States congress do not allow us to devolve in that way. It doesnt mean we cant condemn antisemitismct as we have on this floor. But in my view, we have not done it in this congress to that extent. Would have failed and both times on the call of that process failed. I know colleagues on both sides of the aisle who joined the senator each other in that conviction. Everyr us to welcome american who wants our help and defend our freedom. The standard to give us a platform to admit when we make stakes. Mistakes. Can we consider this power to legislate for the common good, i wonder why my colleagues are eager to sacrifice the integrity of the peoples house for an unprecedented vote that undercut his democratic process. I wonder if the comments today are what some of my colleagues say they are. By the resolution they had to rephrase to make this point. The resolution condemns comments in a way that exposes a breathtaking partisanship of todays exercise. The resolution only quotes three years from the comment it rejects. The words, go back, and invaders. It substitutes its own phrasing and editorializing for the words this resolution has in view. Show rtisan partisanship. It is more of a political japanese knitting else. It is a signal that jab than anything else jab than anything else. When we are accusing our political foe of racism i do not believe the president for speaker of this house or minority leader is a racist. We can go down this line. I do not believe that and while or insist on using this flo to litigate statements out of walls, 280 characters offers us the least context for making our point and endless potential for misunderstanding each other. Todayof political speech seems to try to deepen the divide by highlighting our differences and that is a conference as cause for sadness. We have a choice this afternoon. Can pursue escalation against fellow americans or reconciliation on their behalf. One of those options make room for this body to do its job. Legislating of solutions. Many members in this chamber are my friends and i am thankful to work alongside them each and everyday but today, we renew our democratic ideals by voting against a political statement, something that could not even be written in a proper way without comment. Editorial i would ask my friends to evaluate what is before them, will we have done, and what we dont take up for political convenience when it is our side saying it. I reserve the balance of my time. The gentleman reserves. Highyield one minute to the distinguished majority leader of the house. The majority leaders recognize. Leader is recognized. Chairman for mr. Yielding. I want to thank the gentleman from georgia, who is my friend. This resolution is not about partisanship, its about prejudice. To confrontssity it. Speaker, my father was from denmark. He was born and raised in copenhagen and came here as an adult in his 20s. I have a large, extended family in denmark. The president of the United States did not tell me to go back to denmark. He did not tell the speaker of proud of her woman italianamerican heritage, to go back to italy. He did not tell the irishamerican members of this body to go back to ireland. Or tell those of german ancestry to go back to germany. No, he told four women of color, three of whom are natural born citizens born and raised in their home country of america, their countries. This is their country. Mr. Speaker, i would tell the is the countryit of our colleagues who came here as a refugee from somalia. She endured hardships and arrived on our shores seeking freedom, safety, and opportunity. Citizen, onerican who chose to get back to her community and our country through public service. This is our country. Her country. I will not speculate about the motives or intentions of the president , but no one can dispute that the words he said and wrote were racist words, and have been called such by historyans with a long of being used to demean, dismiss, and denigrate some american citizens as less than others, is not fully belonging in our country because of the color of their skin or the origin of their families. Mr. Speaker, to oppose this sayingion is in effect the words were acceptable. They were not acceptable. Such words should never be acceptable from the leader of this country or frankly, anybody else. They demean our declaration of independence. They demean our constitution. They demean our pledge of one nation indivisible. I urge this house to come together and support this resolution. Whether one supports the president or not, whether one believes he is a racist or not, vote for this resolution that condemns the words that he spoke. They hurt. They are not american. They are not us. A settlement is not one we ought to espouse. I say to the president , the next time you wish to denigrate and demean those who came here or their children and grandchildren , say it to me. Say it to all of us in this house. Say it to every descendent of immigrants. Express the sentiment of the house of representatives that this is not the conversation that we have in america. Lamp beside the golden door. Let us keep that flame bright. I yield back. The gentleman yields back. Before we go any further, let me just remind members to refrain from engaging in personalitybased remarks towards the president. The gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins, is recognized. The gentleman from california, mr. Mcclintock. Thank you, mr. Speaker. We have, unfortunately, entered a. Our historyod of where are political rhetoric has become hyperbolic. We would all be well advised not to continue down this road. America, love it or leave it is not a new sentiment or radical sentiment and certainly is not a racist sentiment. It should remind us of commonly held and enduring founding principles that ought to be uniting us as a free people. Respect for the rule of law and for the uniquely american principles of individual liberty , constitutionally limited government, and personal responsibility that has produced the happiest, most prodtive, and powerful nation in the history of the world. Every nation has a right to protect its culture, traditions, institutions, and principles. Fundamental consensus binds us together and unites us as a free people and makes possible all of the compromises and accommodations required by democratic selfgovernment. We have entered an era where that consensus is breaking down. We have seen a growing hostility to our american founders, our american founding principles, and are proud american heritage. Legal immigration, immigrants who come to our country by obeying our laws, respecting our nations sovereignty, and bringing with them a sincere desire to embrace our constitution and the principles of liberty that anime and informed animates and inform animate and inform our governmental process is critical. Some of the most patriotic americans i know are legal immigrants who obeyed our laws, waited patiently in line, who did everything our country asked them. Some of the most unpatriotic americans i know were born here and have enjoyed all of the blessings of liberty without ever appreciating or even understanding the principles that produced our nations greatness and its goodness. Socialism and slavery spring from the same principal. In lincolns words, the same spirit that says you work, and toil, and make bread, and i will eat it. He reminded us that a house divided against itself cannot stand. He said i do not expect the house to fall, but i do expect that it must cease to be divided. It must become all one thing or all the other. He understood that freedom and slavery were antipedicle. Though they might be and type that equal today we face the same conflict between freedom and socialism and it is time to choose. I wish the president were more temperate in the words that he sometimes uses. Hisree that the tone of recent remarks was unnecessarily provocative, but his Central Point is irrefutable. There is no requirement for those who hate our country to remain here when there are so many other countries with different principles and values to choose from and have in turn produced a very different results. This is as true at of those born here as those who have come here from abroad. This president spoke not of race, but of patriotism, american patriotism. To call that racist fundamentally misunderstands and misrepresents the question before our country today. Ill back. I yield back. The gentleman from georgia reserves. The gentleman from new york is now recognized. Mr. Speaker, i now yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey to sponsor the resolution, mr. Malinowski. The gentleman is recognized. The gentleman is recognized for 3. 5 minutes. When i saw the president s comments over the weekend, my first thought was, my politics may not always be the same as the congresswomen he was attacking, but all of us are americans and unlike most of them, i was actually born in a foreign country. Support andath to defend the constitution of the United States when i was 10 years old with my mom when i was sworn in to be a citizen five years after we came here from poland. Does the president think i should go back because i am an immigrant who disagrees with his policies . There are 44 of us 44 million of us american citizens who were born somewhere else. We know what it is to be american because we chose america. Many of us do come from broken countries, communist country in my case. Broken by communism, and in many cases, broken by leaders doing just what we are doing today, using race and religion to divide people. The president may be doing it cynically. He wants the drama, the reality show. In my district, we have to deal with the reality that these dangerous. Every synagogue in my district has arm security or struggling with the question of whether to have it. We know the words the president uses to drive up his ratings can be like sparks to the gasoline of disturbed mines in our country, that the man who pittsburgh wasin obsessed with migrant caravans and blamed jews for helping refugees. Fringech haters haters have always been with us. Never before have their twisted thoughts been legitimized by the highest leaders of the land. Neonaziterday, the saidy stormer website this is the kind of White Nationalism we voted for. Is this the kind of politics we want in our country . This resolution is not really about the president. We know who he is. My republican colleagues know who he is. The question is, the only question left to us is, who are we . This is not about him, this is about us. Are we still the country of immigrants and laws that every Great American leader believed in . Do we still believe what Ronald Reagan said . That americans lead the world because unique among nations, we draw our people, our strength from every country in every corner of the world, that new americans renew our pride and gratitude in the United States of america, the greatest, freest. Ation in the world this is the choice every member of the house will have to make tonight. Do we agree with president reagans patriotic vision of america are President Trumps message of fear . Republicans and democrats can afford to disagree about many things in this house, but let us not be divided on decency to our fellow americans. In this defining moment for our country and for this body, let us come together to support this resolution. Thank you and i yield back my time. The gentleman yields. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from ohio. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Thank you. I was one of the first republicans, i believe, to speak out once the comments came public on sunday. I did it sunday afternoon and again on monday. Support in good faith this resolution. Overlook theibly partisan nature in which it was brought forward and the number of issues that we have control over in the house that we are choosing to ignore and have continued to ignore since we were sworn in in january. We have members of this body who have called detention facilities concentration camps, have supported people who are labeling our Border Patrol agents and i. C. E. Officers as nazis. Some folks outside of this body of congress were mentioned who he believes were inspired by certain comments. Where is the condemnation of these . When are we going to stand up and condemn those who call americans who are doing their jobs, by the way, enforcing laws that we enact, nazis . When are we going to push back on the . When are we going to push back on comments, and i quote, after wonder of our members was criticized, after the comments i got a text message saying next time, really clarify. Maybe talk like a fourthgrader because may the racist idiots will understand you better. Mia racist to get . Do i read at a fourth grade level . Have we gotten so broken as a congress were a simple disagreement results in us labeling one another racist idiots . Is that who we are . Where is the condemnation . When are we going to speak out about that . I dont have to remind this body about the last time we were here for a similar process. Our members said its all about the benjamins, implying that members of both sides of the aisle are being purchased and bought by our jewish brothers and sisters. When are we going to stand up and speak out against that . I have been here for seven months now and its the same thing over and over again. The people who lose, and we all know this, are the constituents who are relying on us to actually work to solve problems. We have done nothing to support usmca, to bring it up for a vote. We have done nothing to bring down the cost of prescription drugs. We have not done anything since we have been here. The reason is because we have been focused on fighting each andr online, biting back forth, rushing in front of the cameras, boosting twitter and inciting the very division that prevents us from seeking common ground. We came here to fight for the ideals that make our nation great. I am the son of cuban immigrants, proudly. With that, i yield back. The gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman reserves. The chairman recognizes the gentleman from new york. I now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from michigan. The gentlelady from michigan is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today and support of this resolution because i want every Single Person in my district to know that not only are they part of the squad, but we are all here to stay. I want them to know that they belong, that we see and hear them loud and clear. I am more proud today, mr. Speaker, than ever to be the daughter of palestinian immigrants, to be the first and my family to graduate high school and later college, to have grown up in the city that birth movements that fought against racism and inequality in our country. It is a city that taught me to never back down, to speak down speak up when i see injustice. This resolution chooses all of us. It chooses you, those who were marginalized. Anyone,t allow especially the president of the United States, to erode our core American Values. I urge my colleagues to please choose our country, choose the American People, and to support this resolution. Thank you. The gentleladys time has expired. Chairman recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. Collins. Thank you, mr. Collins. I rise today in opposition to House Resolution 489, the latest legislative attack on the president. Much like most of the ideas and comments coming from the leading members of the socialist left, yesterdays press conference was at best political theater. In the last few days, Democrat Members of this house have attacked the president with claims of racism. Some have even said and then walked back similar comments referring to the democrat House Speaker. None of those accusations are based in fact. As a representative of the people of the ninth Congressional District of pennsylvania, i feel it is most important to address this matter and then move on to engage in of work and what matters real substance and importance to the people of our country rather than baseless namecalling and offensive lectures. The ongoing policy debate across the country will continue to be socialism versus american exceptionalism. The people decide our direction. What has really happened here is that the president and his supporters have been forced to endure months of allegations of racism and concentration camp accusations. I yield back. The german reserves. Gentleman reserves. This ridiculous slander does a disservice to our nation and to the American People. I urge a no vote on the resolution aimed purely at harassing the president of the United States. I yield back. The german reserves. The gentleman from the the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is recognized. I yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from texas. Mislead is recognized lee is recognized for one minute. I said earlier today that i wish we were not here. But we are here and now i wish to indicate that i am appalled at any commentary that demeans or hurts a fellow human being or fellow american or fellow world citizen. The recounting of various andements, i realize recognize that comments were made about statements to ease the pain of those who were receiving it. Right now we are talking about comments that came from the highest office in the land, which really does reflect what this little book, the that thison, says, nation was organized to create a more perfect union. The officer in the white house, the president of the United States, took to tweeting and talked about the first africanamerican from the seventh district, the first palestinian woman, the youngest woman elected to congress, and the first somaliamerican women, women of color. Weis important that today condemn this action and do it together. I asked my republican colleagues to vote for the underlying resolution. I yield back. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia gentlelady from West Virginia. I rise today to speak in opposition to the resolution on the floor. For the past seven months, the president has stated that there is a crisis on our border. Republican house leadership has said there is a crisis on the border. My colleagues have said there is a crisis on the border, and i have said there is a crisis on the border. From the Party Leadership and Committee Chairs and hearings and even on the house floor, many have said that the crisis nonexistent,y, manufactured, imaginary, and false. They turned a blind eye to a crisis because a political opposition and the media followed suit. A few weeks ago, several of my colleagues across the aisle took a trip to our southern border, bringing cameras and journalists along with them. They finally came to terms with what the republicans have been saying for months. However, instead of focusing on the root of the problem, underfunding and overcrowding, backlogged cases, and unprecedented surges, they opposed funding and passed a bill to Ban Construction on the southern border. For seven months, my colleagues across the aisle have denied a crisis and failed to act. They still have not acted. I want to Work Together to solve this crisis. Instead, we are here debating political nonsense. I have had enough talk about tweets, squads, infighting, labels, and petty disagreements. When we look at the content of the legislation brought up for construction today, it is no surprise that the American People have such a low approval of congress. It is not a messaging bill to placate the activists. It is an advancement of the socialist agenda, a bill to handcuff our president or the denouncement of. American values i came to congress to create jobs, grow the economy, innovate art energy industry, and fixed West Virginias infrastructure. I came to solve the problems that affect the lives of those we represent, to improve our communities, our country. That is why we are all here. This resolution is a waste of time. I urge my colleagues to a poise this to oppose this legislation and any legislation that does not deliver the results for our country that our citizens deserve. I yield back the remainder of my time. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from new york is not recognized now recognized. I yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from tennessee, mr. Cohen. Thank you. I join in supporting this resolution. I felt we should have had a stronger resolution that censored the president , hres 490, because the conduct that has been charged is beneath the office of the president. She should not disparage people and suggested they go back to where they were born. Casiocortez was born in the bronx and her parents were born in puerto rico. Mr. President should note that rico is the United States of america. From references to haiti and holeuntries as countries, has gone out of his way to disperse spanish americans, people of african descent and of african countries. This is beneath the office of the president. I yield back the balance of my time. Let me remind members again to refrain from engaging in personality based remarks towards the president or any other member. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. I asked for a time check on both sides, please. Gentleman from georgia has 12. 5 minutes. The gentleman from new york has 20 minute. Thank you. I yield three minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin. The gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. Appreciate the gentleman for yielding and thank you, mr. Speaker. I just want to note, at the start of this resolution, for the first three pages, i agree with everything. We have great quotes of our founders and american president s to talk about the strength of this country that has come from immigrants and immigration. I wholeheartedly concur. Four, i havepage significant disagreement. I would note that on page four, on the whereas, its noted that trumps racist comments have legitimized fear and hatred of new americans. I want to make a point to my friends across the aisle, because in paragraph two you note that it is committed to keeping america open to those who lawfully seek refuge from violence and oppression. Lawfully seek refuge and asylum. Just recently, President Trump have said has said those who have sought asylum who have a hearing and have a deep eig deportation order, your offended by that you are offended by that. You agree that those who have lawful orders of deportation should be sent out of the country, just to cite your resolution. I want to note, mr. Speaker, that i have looked closely at the chain of three tweets sent out by President Trump. In those tweets, i see nothing that references anybodys race. Not a thing. I dont see anyones name being referenced in the tweets. The president is referring to people, congresswomen who are antiamerican. Lo and behold, everyone in this. Hamber knows who he is talking about who are the antiamerican members of congress . He did not say their race but commented on how they view america. We all know who he is talking about. I want immigrants to come to this country. If you come to this country, shouldnt you love this country . We all see imperfection. To say i wholeheartedly dislike the country, the fact that i am going to call the president an m fer, good lord, what does the institution become . Speaker, thatmr. That is the language that the left would use and then tried to call out the president who did cite race or name. I look at this and think we are all called to do better and be better. We should make this country better. When i look at some who say i believe that socialism is a pure form of government and a better economic economy over capitalism, that has given us the freest, most prosperous country that has ever existed on the face of the earth, that we want to trade this in for a system that has always failed . I think you will see many pushback against that. Thats what this argument. Comes down to i look at some of my conservative colleagues, whether its candace owens, tice thomas the gentleman, please. I yield back. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Let me again say, please direct your comments to the chair. I have a parliamentary inquiry. My inquiry is this. My colleague across the aisle just referred to members of congress as antiamerican. I believe that those words are defamatory and i would like to ask whether that is appropriate for a request for the gentleman to take down his words. The chair will not issue an advisory opinion. I have directed both sides to please address the chair. I asked that members refrain from engaging in any personality based remarks. Issueair is not going to an advisory at this point. So member can say that other members of congress are antiamerican and there is no resolution for that . To ask theke gentleman to take down his words. The gentlelady is making a demand that the words be taken down. Yes, i am asking the gentlemans words be taken down. If the violation occurs again, i will interrupt in sentence. I yield one minute to the distinguished speaker of the house. Recognized. Thank you. I think the gentleman for yielding, for his leadership in so many ways in this congress. Bringing this for important resolution to the floor. I come to the floor prayerfully. It is very sad. It was interesting to me and i spoke out about this that on masses, thecatholic gospel of the day was the gospel ,f the good samaritan, a person what do i have to do to enter the kingdom of heaven . love thylied, neighbor as thyself. Show mercy. Then went on to talk and said how do i do this . Jesus gave him the example of the good samaritan. Everyone is familiar with how i streeter helped how a stranger helped another stranger. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Show mercy. That same day, coincidentally, ironically, sadly, whatever adverb you want to use, the president was instituting race into the homes of families. I went to spanish mass this weekend and saw the dignities of those families, the beauty of the children and the fear the president had struck in their hearts as we were listening to the gospel of the good samaritan, to show mercy and Love Thy Neighbor as thyself. That very same day, unfortunately, there were those informed byre not that gospel. So here we are, later in that day, it was stunning to hear the to some ofgo home, our colleagues, the same words that were used to so many people in our country, whether because they were not born here or because they did not look like some others here. Go home. Insulted as we all should be about the president saying that also not colleagues, showing mercy for him to say that about so many people in our country, as he wants to split up families. I think mr. Molnar ski and mr. Askin to speak to the gospel of the good samaritan. Raskin, for his Firm Leadership in advancing this resolution. The house, hopefully has come together, standing as one to denounce the white houses xenophobic attacks on our members, our peoples and to defend the values of america. What is america . America is many things. A land of a great constitution under threat, a beautiful land god has given us, which is being degraded. Values that we share that are also undermined, america, a nation largely but not totally, largely of immigrants. As this resolution so beautifully states the founders conceived america as a haven for refuge, for people fleeing from religious and political persecution. Thomas jefferson, alexander hamilton, james madison, having opposite views on other subjects all emphasized the nation gained as it attracted new people in search of freedom and livelihood for their families. The resolution quotes our most iconic president s that all recognized that immigrants are the constant reinvigoration of america, pope, determination, optimism encouraged to make the future better hope those are American Values and trait of optimism, courage, and many of these immigrants that come here with those values, make america more american. Franklin roosevelt said, remember always that all of us, you and i especially, are descendents from immigrants. President john f. Kennedy, who wrote that the contribution of immigrants can be seen in every aspect of our National Life and president Ronald Reagan who said it so beautifully in his last speech is as an end of the states, which is quoted in this resolution if we ever close the door to new americans, our leadership in the world will soon be lost. The president s comments about our colleagues this weekend shows that he does not share those values. These comments from the white house are disgraceful and disgusting and racist. How shameful to hear those who continue to defend those words, words we have heard repeated about our members and countless others. Our caucus will continue to forcefully respond to those whichs on our members, represents a fundamental disrespect for the beautiful diversity of america. There is no place anywhere for the president s words, which are not only divisive but dangerous and have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new americans and people of color. It is so sad because you would think there would be a given that we would universally in this body just say, of course. Of course. There is no excuse for any response to those words but a swift and strong, unified condemnation. Every Single Member of this institution, democratic and republican, should join us in condemning the president s racist tweets. To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American People. I urge to and you back ask the gentleto speaker of the house if she would like to rephrase that comments . [applause] point of order, the gentlewomans words are out of order. The chair reminds all members, please, please do not make comments, personalitybased comments. Gentleman from georgia is recognized. Point of order. Request they be taken down. Is the gentleman making a demand the words be taken down . I request the words are on parliamentary and be taken down. The floor debate came to a halt for more than an hour as the parliamentarian reviewed the request. Emanuel cleaver abandon the speakers chair after making brief remarks to the house floor. Heres a look. The speakeo