"They just want to have happy history and not really history, and they don't want to talk about slavery because that is not happy history."
"The Supreme Court has long recognized that the right of otherwise fit parents and guardians to make decisions about the upbringing of a child under their care is a fundamental right under the 14th Ame..."
"The government command of separating children from parents is becoming epidemic."
"There is a reason why we have amended the Constitution so rarely and why the Framers made it so difficult to amend."
"The False Claims Act has been responsible since 1987 for bringing in $39 billion in recoveries from corporations that cheated the American taxpayer."
"These issues affect my constituents in a major way. Second chance opportunities for employment is one of the things I hear most from constituents."
"Voting, in my district we had an election in May, a primary election for county offices, very important and about 10 percent of the people who were registered voted."
"if people who had convictions in the past were allowed to vote, if they voted, by their simple action of voting they would show they were in the upper 10 percent of the citizenry."
"I, for one, think that we should expand our horizons and all opportunities we can to people who have cancer and other life-threatening diseases to ease their pain and their anguish."
"A great number more than that get arrested and get a scarlet 'M' fastened to their chest for life, which means they don't get a job maybe or a college scholarship."
"Of course, we know that's not true because the people with epileptic seizures, the mothers who have found that part of that is the cannabinoids, or whatever it is, it definitely helps their children."