[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3540]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         CIANA VS. COCKFIGHTING

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Judiciary Committee considered 
a bill to protect chickens, roosters, from being carried across State 
lines for use in illegal cockfighting. An amendment was offered on a 
similar ``cross State line'' issue, protecting minor girls from being 
carried across State lines for the purpose of having an abortion 
without their parents' knowledge or consent.
  While the committee ultimately passed the animal protections, they 
wouldn't even allow a vote on protecting young girls. Even more 
outrageous, the substance of the rejected amendment has passed twice in 
the House last year, with large bipartisan majorities.
  Mr. Speaker, in case anyone is having trouble following this, let's 
summarize: by rejecting this amendment, Democrats saw fit to provide 
greater protections to birds than to minor girls and their parents and 
unborn children. It is as simple as that. This is supposed to be the 
year of the children? Not all of the children.
  Welcome to the Pelosi Congress.

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