Melton Hancock: “Were those recommendations made to promote--to encourage and support homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle? I do not…”

But we can counsel, and the proper thing to do, if an individual should recognize that they are not qualified to counsel in this field, they should refer them to the proper qualified counsel.

I think they could counsel them. I question whether we have very many people in public education who are qualified to counsel on this particular subject. I do not know that that is a requirement for teaching.

I felt like when I was elected to the Congress I came up here with a good reputation. I plan on leaving the Congress at the end of this term with a good reputation. After all, that is really all you have to leave, is a good reputation.

I rise today to express my opposition to employer mandated health coverage included in the President's Health Security Act, and in the health reform legislation currently pending before the Committee on Ways and Means. As one of the few…