[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H8382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               WHAT IS MISSING FROM OUR SCHOOLS IS PRAYER

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, something does not add up. Congress 
continues to spend more money on crime and cops, more money on jails 
and prisons, pumps money into schools wherever possible, but you can 
still find drugs in our schools, guns and violence in our schools. 
There are even condoms in our schools, God forbid, rape, and even cases 
of murder in our schools.
  About the only thing you cannot find in our school today is prayer. 
Even though ``in God we trust'' is written over all our buildings and 
on all our currency, about the only time you can hear God's name in 
school is when God's name is taken in vain. Shame, Congress. Shame. A 
nation and a Congress that will keep God out just may have invited the 
Devil. Think about that one.

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