I would agree. Let me just say in closing that this amendment, if it is defeated, is one more sign that compassion, that concern for helpless, innocent children has simply gone politically out of fashion. We will be inflicting, if we defeat this amendment, misery and deprivation on children who deserve far better of us.
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