[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICA IS ONE NATION UNDER GOD

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, one Nation under God. These four solemn 
words form the very backbone of our great democracy. In one short 
breath these patriotic words in the Pledge of Allegiance from which 
they are proudly spoken have guided the American experiment in 
democracy for generations.
  Yesterday, through a gross example of misguided judicial activism, 
two Federal judges stripped these words from the American vocabulary. 
It is bizarre decisions like this that have given the Ninth Circuit the 
dubious distinction of being the most overturned court in the Nation. 
In one year alone, 26 of the Ninth Circuit's 27 rulings were thrown 
out.
  This decision further brings the light the desperate need for the 
other body to quick blocking President Bush's judicial nominees and 
supply our courts with qualified judges that will interpret, not 
rewrite, the Constitution. I hope the Senate is listening.
  Mr. Speaker, I do pledge allegiance to the flag; and I am proud to 
say that, despite the beliefs of the Ninth Circuit, this is still one 
Nation under God.

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