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Andy Barr: Finally, Mr. Chairman, let me mention the whole process here is rather bizarre. We see the folks on the other side…

On the recordSeptember 3, 1997
Finally, Mr. Chairman, let me mention the whole process here is rather bizarre. We see the folks on the other side saying, well, because these people went to the School of the Americas and sometime in the future, after that point, they committed these bad acts, therefore we must close the doors of the School of the Americas. How preposterous. Should we search out and close the doors of every school in the United States of America because one of them may have produced at some point in time a Ted Bundy or somebody else that goes out and commits an act? Blaming the school for the bad acts of its graduates in this instance is ill-conceived. This is nonsense, Mr. Chairman, and it ought to be defeated.
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Andy Barr
Republican · Kentucky

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Addressing the proposal to close the School of the Americas during a congressional debate.

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