Candice S. Miller: “in this House, we are continually voting for increased funding for institutions of higher learning in our Nation, and it…”

“in this House, we are continually voting for increased funding for institutions of higher learning in our Nation, and it is certainly right and it is proper that we do so, because our future depends or our young people being able to receive the education that they so rightly deserve. But what has been troubling in recent years has been attempts by many of these same institutions that receive Federal funding to restrict or to bar military recruiters from their campuses in violation of the law. Recently, Mr. Speaker, the Supreme Court voted in an 8-0 decision to uphold the requirement that military recruiters be given access to students like any other perspective employer, or that institution could lose their Federal funding. This policy is very, very important to the future of our military, of our freedom, and of our democracy. The young men and women on our college campuses should not be denied the great opportunities available to them, to so many of them in the United States military, just because some college administrator may not agree with our national policy. We have freedom in our Nation, but that freedom is not free. And there are many young people in our Nation's colleges, in our Nation's universities who are willing to pay the price of service and of sacrifice in order to protect the freedom of every one of their fellow Americans. Mr.…”