[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2317-H2318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN AMERICAN FLAG DESECRATION

  (Mr. QUINN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUINN. Mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise today 
to join many of our colleague here in the House in support of a 
constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag.
  Mr. Speaker, I just left an announcement on the left side of the 
Capitol with a group of Members, House Members, Senate Members, 
Republicans and Democrats, and hundreds of thousands of veterans from 
all over the country who are in support of this 
amendment. [[Page H2318]] 
  The amendment states that ``The Congress and the States shall have 
the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the Flag of the 
United States.'' Almost every State, 46 of the States in this country 
have asked us to do just that.
  Let us give the States and the American people what they want and 
what our flag deserves.
  Our Stars and Stripes stands for the principle of democracy. It 
represents all the hard fought battles for freedom and preservation of 
the American way of life. I call on my colleagues to join 
Representative Jerry Solomon, Representative Sonny Montgomery, myself, 
and others to cosponsor this legislation in the coming weeks.

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