[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 20, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5294]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I think about my wife, Andrea, and I 
when we go to take a couple days away from the kids and we leave our 4-
year-old with his grandparents, how heartbreaking it is to even leave 
that kid when you are leaving him with grandparents.
  I think about my great-grandparents, who came here from Italy as 
immigrants. I think about the 13 years of Catholic school that I 
attended. I think about the conversations in Washington, D.C., about 
family values.
  And then I think about how, in the most powerful country in the 
world, our governmental policy is to strip kids--babies, toddlers, 
infants--from their parents. The most powerful country in the world has 
resorted to this nonsense. This is a joke.
  It is by choice, Mr. Speaker. This is a choice that the most powerful 
men in the most powerful country are choosing to take poor kids away 
from their parents.
  It is time for this most powerful President to act immediately and 
stop the American carnage.

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