Sentences with phrase «impassioned floor speech»
«Mr. Speaker, if this Confederate battle flag prevailed in war 150 years ago I would not be standing here as a member of the United States Congress, I would be here as a slave,» Jeffries said in an impassioned floor speech.
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His 2009 post-3 a.m. floor speech in which he delivered an impassion plea for passage of a bill that would cap rent and utilities for low - income people living with AIDS will not soon be forgotten.
A team of speakers, including Julian Spalding (author of The Eclipse of Art), made impassioned speeches in the motion's favour, and even those against seemed so half - hearted that Peregrine Worsthorne was moved to inquire from the floor: «Is there an argument here?»