Political Quotes

“I speak today not really as a Member of Congress in the well; I speak as a parent of a 3-year-old and of a 7-year-old. You bet I want to control what they watch. One of my colleagues earlier today said well, just use the off button. Mr. Chairman, because of this family-friendly schedule, I have be getting home most nights around midnight for the last month, and that will be again the case tonight when I return to Michigan. Tomorrow morning is Saturday, and like most parents of little kids, my 3-year-old and my 7-year-old are going to wake each other up about 7, maybe 6:30, and they are going to go down those stairs and they are going to have that TV on when I wake up a little bit later. I have a feeling that I will not be up and I will not be able to block out what they may or may not watch. The argument that the Markey amendment is going to set up thousands of bureaucrats is wrong. It is false. Mr. Chairman, I have a story that ran in my local paper last week that I am going to read excerpts of and I will include the entire article in the Record, but it is headlined this way, 'Violence, Sex Fill The Airways.' I am a 14-year-old junior high Afro-American female from Benton Harbor. I cannot help noticing the endless amount of times people blame the media for boisterous behavior in teens and young adults. I feel that everyone plays a role in influencing children. As a teenager I can tell you a lot, that the TV is responsible for much of this.…”