John Conyers: “Now, it just so happens that the bill that you so avidly support here on the floor is nothing more than a mean-spirited…”

“Now, it just so happens that the bill that you so avidly support here on the floor is nothing more than a mean-spirited attempt to punish children for the actions of their parents. Did you explain that to your cousins from Australia? And, by the way, what do you think happens to all these hundreds of thousands of kids that you would exclude from schools here? What do they do? Join the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts? Or do they get part-time work? Or do they go the day care centers that their parents will assign to them? Or do they stay out on the streets and become criminals or victims of crime that your nephews fail to understand that you do get punished here in America? You get punished more in America than you do anywhere else in the world.”