Political Quotes

“I too rise to support of the Castle amendment to the Porter amendment because the DARE Program happens to be the best anti-drug, anti-alcohol, pro-student program there is in the United States. It started in Los Angeles County some years ago in the sheriff's department. It is now administered in Pennsylvania through most of our sheriffs departments. It starts in fifth grade and teaches the refusal skills, leadership skills. It has done more to bring families together, to have students focus on what is really important about learning and leading. It has led to students actually being involved with community policing. I know in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and in fact the Delaware Valley area how important the DARE Program has been, and this amendment is certainly a step in the right direction to underscore for our students, for parents and for teachers that this is the kind of program that the Congress can endorse, the kind of program that America needs, and I fully support this program, which is in support of DARE, which is the drug abuse education program, and I believe the Castle amendment deserves the support of all of our colleagues here in the House of Representatives and I appreciate the opportunity to speak on its behalf.”