Word: braun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." -- JESSE HELMS, WHO HAD BEEN SINGING DIXIE, TO ORRIN HATCH AS THEY RODE IN AN ELEVATOR WITH CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN, THE SENATE'S ONLY BLACK MEMBER. MOSELEY- BRAUN'S RETORT: "SENATOR HELMS, YOUR SINGING WOULD MAKE ME CRY IF YOU SANG ROCK OF AGES." HELMS' AIDE LATER SAID IT WAS ALL MEANT IN GOOD...
...CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN...
...think Senator Hatch crossed a line in his questioning. But I am not a black woman." -- JOSEPH BIDEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, COMMENTING ON AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN SENATORS CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN AND ORRIN HATCH DURING THE GINSBURG HEARINGS
...first black woman to sit in the Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, had amassed a spotty record in her first seven months. But she took command of the Senate floor last week as she demanded that the legislators reconsider their approval of the patent. "This vote is about race. It is about racial symbols, the racial past, and the single most painful episode in American history." Her voice shaking, she declared, "It is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans, black or white, that we would put the imprimatur of the United States Senate on a symbol...
Carol Moseley-Braun foils one bit of Southern nostalgia...