Val Demings: “I am afraid the generations behind us do not have any longer a full recognition of what it is that we are so blessed by.…”

“I am afraid the generations behind us do not have any longer a full recognition of what it is that we are so blessed by. When I bring groups to the floor... I will often stop and say: One of the first things I noticed when I walked into the Chamber for the first time was In God We Trust above the Speaker's rostrum. I said: Do any of you wonder why that was put there? Congress did that back in the early 1960s... it says that Congress voted to put that there as a rebuke to the Soviet's philosophy at the height of the Cold War, and the Soviet philosophy was the opposite because, Marxism, communism, all the isms that come from that--socialism--begin with the premise that there is no God. That is a marked distinction from the founding of our country.”