He is also the chairman of the Rural Broadband task force and democratic working group. He came to congress in 1993 representing South Carolinas sixth Congressional District and rapidly demonstrated his leadership skills in the first year he was elected both president of his freshman class and quickly rose through the. Leadership rank he was subsequently elected chairman of the black caucus and later chairman of the House Democratic caucus. He previously served as minority , andfrom 2007 to 2011 served as assistant democratic leader from 2011 to 2019. Hisderstand that he Began Service in elected office at age 12 when he was elected as president of his naacp youth chapter. He has longstanding skills in elected office. He comes from very humble beginnings. Is from sumter, South Carolina the oldest son of an activist, minister and an independent, strong and civic minded his family taught him many important values that he draws on now, the importance of family ,nd community, faith, integri
Their report came out in the summer of 2004, which was very timely for bushs reelection campaign, it basically avoided finding fault with the government, instead had all these broad big theories. It turned out a lot of the 9 11 Commission Information came from torture. The 9 11 commissioners were actually sending requests to the cia to find out more information about this and that and so many of the details which they provided in their official storyline of the 9 11 attacks came from torture of some of the suspects. Phillip chennin of the New York Times has done some excellent work on that. Its not just me. You have that look on your face kind of like uhoh, wheres he going with this . Wheres he going . Not at all. Finish your thought, though. I was just saying its typical of how official history is written in d. C. That you have this panel, this bipartisan panel, the 9 11 commission, which largely ab sovld the government and relied on torture. And that fact comes out three or four year
for their admission into heaven. and he explained to them that he was naked. and he had no clothes. that he was sick. and didn t come to visit him. that he was in jail and they didn t know he was hungry, he was thirsty. basically, he was in bad shape and he went to them and they just turned him down. and as i remember the story, they looked at each other and said, no, you got the wrong people. you never came to any of us. and he said something like, if you don t understand how you should be treated, people not me, but the lesser of people like me, then you should go straight to hell. that s all that s all i remember. and so, i keep bringing it back and forth and saying that s our mission. we saw on television what they think about us as a people. republicans have named us and thank god you re our partners. and i feel so proud as i walk out of here. i d like to say that in three months, this is the first day i tried to do it without a cane. thank you. we want to thank the
if we leave here together. if we have no bad words for each other. i mean, publicly. we do what we have to do privately. but if we find out the solidarity we have someone mentioned my jewish friends. i sat next to a guy in law school. he felt so proud he wasn t jewish in terms of religion but his ham sandwiches and all the laws he had broken. but when israel got attacked he grew 10 feet tall with solidarity. because he had something left in him that he believed in. and god knows it s not just martin luther king. there s a little bit of martin luther king in all of us. if we can take the things we have done, franklyn richardson, the willingness of people to come together. the church is the only thing some people have. they believe in you. we ask in you as a congressional black caucus to believe that we all need that. we re in your hip pocket. we want to be with you. we hope at the end of this meeting you will think about adopting half a dozen of us. if we live in your distri
control the message, then control the message. and don t let your people be controlled by a religious right simply because they are more aggressive. hijack the message from them the way they hijacked it from us. thank you. thank you so much. congresswoman waters. i think jeff johnson talked about what we do now and what we do as we plan for the future. right now we ve got the problem of exciting people, getting them to the polls. we ve only got another, what, five, six months before november. the primaries are going on all over the country. and so know your state laws. and i want to tell you, your ministers and your focused on the gospel. but you ve got a lot of young people and professionals and others in the church. give them an assignment. give the lawyers an assignment in the church. give the young mbas an assignment. have them come back with the information, some of which you have been introduced to here today, this week. and know what your state laws are, what you c