Post by Logan on May 10, 2016 4:28:01 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — A bill that would require the state to monitor and track refugees who relocate to South Carolina narrowly advanced Thursday as opponents decried it as un-American.
“The simple fact of passing this bill sends an atrocious message around the world of who we are as Americans,” said Rep. James Smith, D-Columbia, who threw multiple parliamentary stall tactics at the bill, which he called an affront to American values and a response to an imaginary problem.
His tongue-lashing of the bill and its author, Sen. Lee Bright, R-Roebuck, prompted dozens gathered in a House of Representatives hearing room to break decorum by applauding.
“This fundamentally offends the notion of who we are as a people and I am just beyond belief that we’d be proceeding,” Smith said. “I appreciate what my colleagues are trying to do to make a terrible bill less terrible, but you just can’t get there from here.”
Read more: www.postandcourier.com/20160505/160509644/refugee-monitoring-bill-narrowly-advances-in-sc-house
“The simple fact of passing this bill sends an atrocious message around the world of who we are as Americans,” said Rep. James Smith, D-Columbia, who threw multiple parliamentary stall tactics at the bill, which he called an affront to American values and a response to an imaginary problem.
His tongue-lashing of the bill and its author, Sen. Lee Bright, R-Roebuck, prompted dozens gathered in a House of Representatives hearing room to break decorum by applauding.
“This fundamentally offends the notion of who we are as a people and I am just beyond belief that we’d be proceeding,” Smith said. “I appreciate what my colleagues are trying to do to make a terrible bill less terrible, but you just can’t get there from here.”
Read more: www.postandcourier.com/20160505/160509644/refugee-monitoring-bill-narrowly-advances-in-sc-house