Political Quotes

“I absolutely support women's athletics. As a matter of fact, my spouse is a women's athletic coach, and I think it has been great, the growth that title IX has brought forward in the last few years. The problem is in my district and in districts across this country, many schools, when confronted, because the law has not been clearly laid out for them, especially in two of the three prongs, they have decided, many schools have decided, not to expand women's sports but to instead cut back men's sports to meet the proportionality rule. That certainly was never the intent of the law. What we are asking in this is for them to set up a more definite, specific language so they can meet those last two wordings of those tests. I think that is certainly something that we can work together on, that I am completely dedicated to and, as a matter of fact, one of the things that has happened across this country, in the gentleman's State of Michigan, my State, Iowa, your alma mater State, we have lost literally hundreds of minor men's sports teams because of this type of cutback, swimming programs, gymnastic programs, wrestling programs, those types of sports. Those participants have lost the opportunity to participate.”