Mr. Speaker. today I have introduced a resolution to posthumously grant citizenship to Gen. Robert E. Lee. a Virginian who spent part of his life in my district. Also. I have urged the Subcommittee on Immigration. Citizenship. and International Law to consider enactment of this resolution and the others before the subcommittee at an early date. I would hope that the Congress could enact this bill by June 13. a day that will mark 110 years after General Lee applied for restoration of his rights. General Lee was a man of conviction. After the war he said: I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights.
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