Al Green

Just look at what's happening to the Voting Rights Act.

It is being eviscerated.

And that is the thing that has caused probably half of the

persons of color to be in Congress.

This Voting Rights Act that came into existence because of John Lewis and the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

We can go back.

We don't want to go back and we have to fight back to prevent this backward movement.

Well, I've heard some folks say that I should be censured again.

I've been censured once.

And at one time there was talk of literally removing me from my committee assignments or removing me from the Congress itself.

The people with 218 votes can do almost anything they want under the guise of protecting the honor of the Congress itself.

But I think this would be beneath

what is expected as a form of justice if they should go so far as to do anything other than express their disapproval among themselves.

That I think they can do.

But beyond that, if they go beyond that, it would have to be to censure the people who were creating the disturbance.

I just stood silently

Which is a form of silent protest, peaceful protest.

I never reached toward the president.

I never said ugly things to him.

I think peaceful protest is allowed.