[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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                 SUPPORT THE MOTION TO RECOMMIT H.R. 6

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to provide my colleagues 
with another reason to support the motion to recommit H.R. 6 today.
  House conferees had the opportunity to accept a Senate amendment to 
the bill which would have given local schools needed authority to 
prevent violence in the classroom. It would have closed a loophole in 
Federal law that presently allows students who commit extremely violent 
acts to claim Federal protection under the IDEA. Yes, Federal law 
requires that a student who commits a deadly assault, a stabbing, or a 
rape, stay put in that school if he or she can make a claim to IDEA 
protection.
  The Gorton-Lieberman amendment in the Senate passed that body 
overwhelmingly with strong support from both parties. Many of you have 
expressed support for a similar bill I have introduced in the House. We 
have a chance to fix a law that is being exploited today, a chance to 
provide greater protection to our students and teachers, but we can 
only do it if we recommit this terrible bill to conference.
  If the chapter 1 provisions and if the diluted school prayer and 
homosexual instruction language are not enough then the fact that we 
are not being allowed to even see the formulas we are voting on, on a 
bill that we can not get a copy of from our Document Room should be 
plenty of reason to vote for the motion to recommit. Please vote to 
recommit H.R. 6 to protect students and teachers in your local schools.

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