[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 75 (Monday, May 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H3464-H3465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TWO FORMS OF VIOLENCE

  (Mr. SERRANO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, the debate goes on in this country as we 
try

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earnestly to find solutions for the problem of violence in our schools 
and throughout our society. At the same time the 6 o'clock news reports 
school violence, it reports the violence of war. So I wonder and I ask 
out loud, is it possible that our children are imitating the actions of 
our government, that every time we have a difference with another 
country, we use violence to solve that difference?
  Secondly, this week on the agriculture appropriation bill we will say 
``no'' once again to selling food and medicine to Cuba. Food and 
medicine. Economic violence. Is it possible that our children are 
simply imitating the violence they see coming from our adult behavior?

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