sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
frankly, i said to you before, we even if it chatted about working together on legislation. if we could only keep that tone, as opposed to what we might receive to get with these very strange appointments to very important committees, the idea was, they are in a majority, slim as it is we. held our majority. 212 votes for our democratic leader. they had confusion. what s going to happen coming forward? now that we see the committee assignments, the fact that george santos even has a committee, i m concerned what of where we re going. i m also concerned whether or not extremist theories and beliefs are going to be the governing mantra of this new majority. that will be dangerous to the american people. as i ve said, we are better than this. i want to talk about extremist mantra beliefs in the second, because you ve got legislation to deal with some of that. step that for a second. you said george santos is even on the committee. for most americans, them, i think we elected to congress
other first responders who lost their life, how can you do that? and that is the question of, can you trust someone with the values of american, values of america, the information that is given to you as a member of congress? they say no press is bad press. if somebody doesn t know about this bill you have introduced to fight white supremacy, fox is talking about a lot. lauren boebert is tweeting about it. lauren boebert accuses you of making a mockery of the first amendment. can you tell us, in your own words, what is you are proposing? you actually proposed this bill last summer as well. absolutely. in the last congress, oh oh my tenure, i have been a proponent of fighting against hate crimes for all americans, no matter who you are. if somebody in these last years that i ve seen the horrible, ugly head raise, in terms of el paso, walmart, buffalo, mother emmanuel, and many others. again, america is better than
grocery store, under the auspices of perpetrated white supremacy. the man wanted to create a race war. i think it is important that we be fair to the american people. they listen to us. i am really stunned that fox would, in all that remedial work that they need to do to make themselves credible, that they would take on the sensitive question of race and white supremacy. it is vial. and director wray said it was vile, and said it was the largest part of domestic terrorism. white supremacy. he said it more than once, and i set it in the house and that is what i said. i will not accept that it is about speech. is absolutely not about speech. you could be a white supremacist. the first amendment protects your association and you can speak about your views of white supremacy. you cannot be part of a planning and conspiracy that winds up in the death of fellow americans or others. that is a crime. by the way, i ve heard your
investigate kamala communism a post not secrets in america, up into reality, it conducted investigations based mainly on conspiracy and paranoia, including communism in hollywood and recommended the internment of japanese americans in world war ii. flash forward to december 12th, 2016, in the final day of the house select committee on benghazi, led by the south carolina representative, trey galaxy. the end of a seemingly endless investigation undertaken by republicans, which began at least on the surface, as an investigation into the 2012 terror attacks in libya that killed the u.s. ambassador, chris stevens. which immediately turned into a political sideshow meant to inflict political damage on the venn secretary of state, hillary clinton. as a reminder, you don t need to take my word on that. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee, what her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. we re going t