[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 8, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H4218-H4219]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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            ELENA KAGAN'S BANISHMENT OF MILITARY RECRUITERS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, when Elena Kagan was dean of the 
Harvard Law School, for personal and biased reasons, she banned 
military recruiters from campus. By her actions, she violated the right 
of free speech--in a university setting, of all places. A college 
campus is just the place for free thought, free expression, free speech 
from all points of view.
  Kagan's actions also denied the students the right to hear the 
information. She denied students their right

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even to discuss the military career as a choice because of her own 
prejudices. And when Kagan personally joined a lawsuit to uphold her 
banishment of the military recruiters, the very Supreme Court she wants 
to join unanimously said she was wrong in her judgement.
  Elena Kagan is hostile to the First Amendment. She wants control over 
free thought and free expression unless she personally agrees with it. 
Kagan's attack on the First Amendment shows her dangerous distrust for 
the principles of the Constitution. Her lack of objective judgment 
shows she has no business sitting in judgment on the most powerful 
court in the world.
  And that's just the way it is.

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