Jerrold Nadler: “I note two things in answer to the question. Number one, the right of voluntary school prayer is not threatened. There…”

“I note two things in answer to the question. Number one, the right of voluntary school prayer is not threatened. There is no case on record in the courts of this country that has ever stopped voluntary school prayer, number one, so there is no threat there. And I note, secondly, that the amendment of the gentleman from Texas would threaten a local school district, would give the power to a local bureaucrat to determine in his opinion that the policy of a local school district is not sufficiently protective of his opinion of the constitutional right, let that bureaucrat cut off the Federal aid, and that would be a heck of an incentive to local school districts to lean over backward in favor of officially sponsored prayer.”