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.

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.

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.

Finally, as even some of the Majority witnesses acknowledge, the Obama Administration's enforcement efforts with regard to protecting religious freedom--in the workplace and elsewhere--are to be commended.

Religious freedom is indeed a fundamental pillar of American life.

All Americans--regardless of their religious beliefs-- should know that their government will lead the effort in fostering an open climate of understanding and cooperation.

Moreover, the Affordable Care Act's mandate, we argue, serves two compelling governmental interests--namely, the protection of public health and welfare and the promotion of gender equality--that outweigh whatever attenuated burden the…

Yet in the name of religious freedom we cannot undermine the government's fundamental role with respect to protecting public health and ensuring equal treatment under the law.

Religious freedom is a fundamental pillar of American life.

I am a strong supporter of D.C.'s having the autonomy to address the issues as they did by a 10-1 vote.

Louis Brandeis, my favorite Supreme Court Justice, said that States are the laboratories of democracy.