Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank the gentleman from California for yielding time. I will urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this rule for many reasons which I will outline in my comments, but I certainly want to share with the gentleman from California and with the sponsors of this bill the feeling that all of us want to see that our children are protected, that all children are protected, particularly when they are in State-sponsored institutions, such as public schools or other such institutions. Nobody wants our children to be at any risk, and we want to make sure that the people who are looking after them take the proper precautions when they are dealing with them, especially in a physical way. Madam Speaker, we are here today to debate the rule on H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they assembled the U.S. Constitution and the protections it guarantees, specifically in the Tenth Amendment. The authors of this amendment, an amendment ratified in 1791, remembered what it was like to be under the thumb of a distant, all-powerful government, and they understood that a one- size-fits-all approach does not work. Since the U.S. Constitution was first ratified, the Federal Government has slowly, steadily and corrosively eroded the notion of States' rights and of our individual liberties.…”