House Proceeding 10-26-09 on Oct 26th, 2009 :: 0:34:50 to 0:37:40
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Keith Ellison: strength and courage to the president of the united states and i ask three times, god please, god please, god please continue to bless america. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for five minutes.

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Speech By: Keith Ellison

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Keith Ellison: . mr. ellison: i come to read a statement issued by the tricaucus. i'd like to read this statement. it includes members of the caucus, the latino caucus and the asian caucus, about 87

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Keith Ellison: members of the congress. four of our colleagues, mr. shadegg, mr. trent frank, and others issued a call to determine whether it was placing staff in key congressional offices who they fear are acting

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Keith Ellison: as spies. this coincides with the launch of a book by an anti-islamic author called "the muslim mafia: inside the secret underworld

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Keith Ellison: conspiring to islamize america." it was written after his efforts to infiltrate the grp. the charges smack of america 60 years ago, where lists of un-american agitators were identified. we should be affirming the importance of diversitied on tolerance for all staff in

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Keith Ellison: congress without suspicion of being identified as spies. the idea we should investigate muslim interns as spies was that blow to religious freedom they cherish. we should be encouraging all americans to engage in the united states political process

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Keith Ellison: to take part in and contribute to the great democratic experiment that is america. we all have experience seeing discrimination and we know there will be challenges ahead. but our message should be firm that the united states of america and this country, we believe welcomes people of all

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Keith Ellison: backgrounds to the united states congress. we ask these charges be disavowed and we issue a hearty welcome to interns and staff of all creeds, color, ethnicity and sexual orientation. i will submit this for the record and i thank the