[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 6, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H631-H632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FAMILIES AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTHOOD

  (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, a 15-year-old California student shot 
and killed two peers and wounded 13 others. Once again, guns are 
blamed.
  Madam Speaker, I disagree. It is time to look at family and the 
responsibilities of parenthood. But in any regard,

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just think about it. America has drugs, rape, even murder in our 
schools, but God is not allowed to enter, not even a moment of silence. 
Beam me up.
  A nation that denies God defies God and invites disaster like we are 
seeing week after week, month after month. I yield back the fact that 
school prayer may not solve all problems, but school prayer is a start 
in the right direction.

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