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Pelosi Rejects Michael Jackson Resolution · July 13, 2009
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected “a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because the debate on the symbolic measure could raise ‘contrary views’ about the pop star’s life. Lawmakers are free to use House speeches ‘to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish,’ said Pelosi, D-Calif. ‘I don’t think it’s necessary for us to have a resolution.’
“A resolution sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), cites some of the singer’s charitable acts and proclaims him an American legend, musical icon and world humanitarian.
“Even before Pelosi’s comments, some Democrats said privately they did not support the resolution and a divisive debate would hurt House efforts to muster the votes for priorities such as health care and climate change.
“A resolution, I think, would open up to contrary views to – that are not necessary at this time to be expressed in association with a resolution whose purpose is quite different,” Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference where she discussed various legislative matters.
“Unbowed, Jackson Lee said she will seek support from colleagues who thanked her when she introduced the measure June 26, one day after Michael Jackson died.”
Jackson Lee, who spoke at the funeral for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles, is a Seventh-day Adventist whose religious faith should have prevented her from doing either the speech or entering the resolution for a worldly pop star. Fellow democrat Pelosi’s comments should have reminded Jackson Lee that she is not only out of place in Congress, but especially so before the God of heaven.
“Jackson Lee has pledged that the resolution, now before the House Foreign Affairs Committee where she is a member, would come to the full House for debate.”
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