[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2794]
[From the U.S. 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, 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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