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On the recordJanuary 24, 1995
This amendment is not about protecting children. This amendment is about protecting the rights of so many here who want to take away the rights of parents and local governments and State governments to have their own input into how children should be cared for. We all believe in protecting the rights of children. But when we make a decision in one place about what we are going to do and in another place about how we are going to pay for it, that is a very bad way to handle things. And it takes away rights of people who care the most about children, and that is their parents. I urge the defeat of this amendment.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

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Opposing an amendment related to children's rights and parental authority.

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