[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 105 (Thursday, July 22, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1625]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT OF 1999

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                               speech of

                         HON. CHARLES T. CANADY

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 15, 1999

  Mr. CANADY of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am very grateful for the 
support of so many religious and public policy organizations in the 
passage of the Religious Liberty Protection Act. I would like to give 
special recognition to Prison Fellowship Ministries and Justice 
Fellowship, Christian Legal Society, Focus on the Family, Baptist Joint 
Committee on Public Affairs, National Council of Churches of Christ in 
the USA, American Center for Law and Justice, American Jewish Congress, 
Association of Christian Schools International, Family Research 
Council, Southern Baptist Convention: Ethics and Religious Liberty 
Commission, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, United 
States Catholic Conference, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, 
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Council on Religious 
Freedom for their important contribution to this legislation.
  I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Douglas Laycock, Alice 
McKean Young Regents Chair and Associate Dean of the University of 
Texas School of Law, for his invaluable legal analysis during the 
drafting and passage of the Religious Liberty Protection Act. I would 
also like to recognize the important contribution of the scholarship of 
Presidential Professor Michael McConnell of the University of Utah 
College of Law in the area of religious liberty.
  I note that Congressman Charles W. Stenholm from the 17th District of 
Texas requested to be a cosponsor of H.R. 1691 but was inadvertently 
omitted from the list of cosponsors.

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