[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10534-10535]
[From the U.S. 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 earnestly to find solutions for the problem of violence in our 
schools and throughout our society. At the same

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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?
  Second, 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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