[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8404]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DIALOGUE WITH THE PRESIDENT

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Yesterday, Father Jenkins, the 
President of my alma mater, Notre Dame, explained his decision to give 
President Obama an honorary degree, in spite of his opposition to the 
culture of life expressed by that university and the Catholic Church. 
He explained it as an invitation to dialogue with the President. Let us 
hope so.
  Let us hope there is a dialogue on the President's support for 
partial-birth abortion; on his opposition to the born-alive baby 
legislation; on his reversal of the Mexico City policy; on his support 
of Federal funding for embryonic stem cells where, denouncing it, he 
gave the back of the hand to Catholic moral teaching; and, in vitiating 
the Federal regulations guaranteeing the conscience clause, which is 
aimed at Catholic hospitals, doctors, and nurses.
  Will this be an invitation to dialogue? Will the commencement address 
be an opportunity for the President to question his prior decisions? 
God only knows.

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