CONSIDERATION AND DEBATE Ch. 29 § 65 bama, ruled that the language any agency, office, or department violated the rules of debate since which segregated citizens on the directed to the personality of an- basis of race, color, creed, or na- other Member. The words were tional origin.(10) In commenting on stricken from the Record. the amendment, Mr. Powell stat- ed: If you do not believe that segregation § 65. —Race and Prejudice is practiced here by the District gov- ernment may I say look at me, one of It is not in order in debate to your fellow Congressmen. I cannot get accuse a Member of bigotry or rac- a card to play tennis, for instance, in ism.(8) However, a Member may any of the parks of the District of Co- express the opinion in debate that lumbia.... another Member is by his actions Mr. John E. Rankin, of Mis- and words doing a disservice to a sissippi, then commented as fol- minority race if terms not objec- lows on the amendment: tionable in themselves are not Mr. Chairman, this amendment to (9) used. deny funds to separate schools here in
§ 65. —Race and Prejudice Is Practiced Here by the District Gov- Ernment May I Say Look at Me, One of It Is Not in Order in Debate to Your Fellow Congressmen
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