In my administration, we will ask not only what is legal but also what is right, not just what the lawyers allow but what the public deserves. He went on and said: In my administration, we will make it clear there is the controlling legal authority of conscience. Does my friend from Massachusetts think this process and this proposal meets the test that the Governor of Texas set yesterday in Pennsylvania?
Discussing a speech by the Texas Governor in relation to a bill during Senate debate.
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