Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 822, I call up the bill (S. 304) to improve motor vehicle safety by encouraging the sharing of certain information, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Foxx). Pursuant to House Resolution 822, an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 114-61 is adopted, and the bill, as amended, is considered read. The text of the bill, as amended, is as follows: S. 304 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Conscience Protection Act of 2016''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds as follows: (1) Thomas Jefferson stated a conviction common to our Nation's founders when he declared in 1809 that ``[n]o provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority''. (2) In 1973, the Supreme Court concluded that the government must leave the abortion decision ``to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician'', recognizing that a physician may choose not to participate in abortion. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 164 (1973).…”