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Cliff Stearns: “I would just like to tone down the debate here and see that we talk about some of the facts. As any piece of…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1994
I would just like to tone down the debate here and see that we talk about some of the facts. As any piece of legislation, everybody reads it differently. I am sure the gentlewoman from Washington has promoted an amendment here that she believes honestly clarifies, I think might be the word, the Hancock amendment. But let me read what she is saying in her amendment. She is adding this to the Hancock amendment. 'No local educational agency shall use funds under this Act to distribute or to aid in the distribution by any organization of obscene material to minors on school grounds.' I have here a book. It is called 'Daddy's Roommate.' This is not obscene literature. Let me ask the gentlewoman from Washington, 'Heather has two mommies.' One teenager in 10, and I would be glad to yield to the gentlewoman from Washington, if this is considered literature that would be allowed under her amendment to be distributed?
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Cliff Stearns
Florida
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Discussing an amendment related to the distribution of literature in schools.

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