Mark Souder: “I am going to make four basic points, which I know we have been making all afternoon, but there is no harm with…”

“I am going to make four basic points, which I know we have been making all afternoon, but there is no harm with repetition because they are important. One, there is no reliable data on how much use there is of these techniques. We've heard all sorts of individual horror stories that my sociology prof used to call 'my Aunt Annie stories.' We have some real cases of abuse that need to be addressed. We have others of a wide variety. I, for example, would abhor most of them. I don't find being made to stand in a corner quite the same as some others might, but I think there is a wide range. We need to know how many of these are serious, how many of these justify intervention, and how many of them are things where there is a difference of opinion. It also fails to acknowledge in this bill that 31 States have had this, and this is a one-size-fits-all, and that many other States who don't have it are doing it. This is the ultimate arrogance.”