Richard K. Armey: “I appreciate my colleagues that will be joining me this evening. It seems like every now and then, once perhaps in every…”

“I appreciate my colleagues that will be joining me this evening. It seems like every now and then, once perhaps in every lifetime, there is a sense of a movement on land, a movement of a Nation in search for things of greater meaning and of deeper meaning. I believe that is the case today. I believe America is searching for values that will work in the lives of their families and the lives of their children. I believe that value search that we see going on in America today is characterized accurately, as I like to characterize it, as a search for old ways of doing things. I believe that it is up to us in a representative democracy to represent the very best of the people that we are privileged to represent and in doing that, it seems to me we must be in touch with these issues. We must be in touch with the search that we see among our Nation's people. So towards that end of better understanding, I have gathered together a group of Members who have been studying on this matter and we would like to devote the next hour to discussing these issues. I would like to begin with the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts), who will talk about the moral principles as the foundation of a good society. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).”