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ATLANTA, April 16 (UPI) -- Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., says an incident in which a Washington, D.C., school bus passed by a student, sums up what she wants to achieve in Congress.
Currently under grand jury investigation for allegedly striking a Capitol Hill police officer, McKinney said she was walking to work one morning last May when a boy ran by trying to catch a bus for school.
Picking up the boy, McKinney raced after the bus, stopped it and yelled at the driver to open the door, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The bus driver just shook her head and drove off, McKinney told the paper.
"That bus represented the door of opportunity," McKinney said. "It left that little boy behind.
"The policies of this Congress and this administration and the decisions of the court are leaving too many Americans behind," McKinney said in an hourlong speech to an empty House chamber, the newspaper reported.
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