House Proceeding on Feb 7th, 2008 :: 0:48:44 to 0:53:30
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Speech By: Howard P. Buck McKeon

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Howard P. Buck McKeon: policy goals? is this payback because republicans planned to demand a vote today on earmark reform? mr. speaker, this is an unreasonable rule that taints the bipartisanship of the underlying bill, and

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Mark E. Souder: i strongly oppose it. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio. ms. sutton: i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore:

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Speech By: Mark E. Souder

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Mark E. Souder: the gentlewoman from ohio reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from indiana,

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Mark E. Souder: also a member of the committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. souder: thank you. i thank my friend from washington state. i had an amendment

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Mark E. Souder: that we fully debated in committee on student free speech. and i wanted to offer it today, but isn't it ironic that while i was trying to argue for a student bill of rights and free speech

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Mark E. Souder: that we're not allow to have free speech in the bill of rights in the united states congress? how in the world are we having 27 amendments and this amendment was overwhelmingly supported

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Mark E. Souder: by our party, we only have out of the 27 four that the majority party -- four from republicans, and those are those the republicans opposed. if we have time for 27 amendments, why can't we have

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Mark E. Souder: an amendment for free speech? i just don't understand. i never understood the opposition to the amendment. but what an insult to the american people that when we want to debate whether we

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Mark E. Souder: should have a student bill of rights on campuses, which are approximating being adopted across -- are being adopted across the country, the congress can't debate a free speech protection. this is an

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Mark E. Souder: outrage, an embarrassment and humiliation to the rules committee. why 27 but not one on the student bill of rights? could it be that it's a difficult vote? david horowitz, and i would ask unanimous

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Mark E. Souder: consent to insert in the record on intellectual diversity -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. souder: has been a champion of this problem. now we had an interesting debate

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Mark E. Souder: in this committee. the chairman of the committee said that some of the students that were complaining should grow up and cited a case where he struggled. and when i was in college and wore

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Mark E. Souder: a button saying "proud to be a square" when most of america wasn't proud to be a square. i had my share of debates and harassments and being yelled down, trying to offer a differing view than

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Mark E. Souder: the view that was popular in the late 1960's. and that goes with being in a college campus. but there are examples across this country where intellectual diversity, intellectual alternatives

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Mark E. Souder: are being sometimied in the academia. this would protect those rights. some of it is from the far left. in fact, next tuesday, ben stein has a movie coming out that will debut about one of

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Mark E. Souder: those debates in science where there is an effort to stamp it out. particularly when you get in government economics, social -- sociology. increasing three there is a rigidity. if you disagree

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Mark E. Souder: you are harassed, your papers can be given back to you, speeches and alternative speakers are shouted down. yes, there are nominal processes to do it. but if there are nominal processes to do

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Mark E. Souder: it, what is wrong? this amendment says, for example, individual colleges and universities have different missions and each institution should design its academic program in accordance with the institutional

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Mark E. Souder: mission. they should promote intellectual pluralism and have free and open ideas. will the gentleman yield one minute? mr. hastings: i yield one minute. mr. souder: that's not controversial. they

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Mark E. Souder: should not be discouraged from speaking out, discriminated against because of their personal, political, ideological or religious beliefs. isn't that a terrible, risky difficult vote? students

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Mark E. Souder: should be treated equally and fairly, including evaluation in grading without regard to or consideration of their personal, political views, or ideological beliefs. how can we say there should

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Mark E. Souder: be no persecution? there is no whereas clauses here. there is no wording that says campuses are liberal. there's nothing in here that's partisan. i just read you the guts of the bill.

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Mark E. Souder: why can't we vote on this? why is this opposed? why is it opposed so much that we're not even allowed to debate it on the floor of the congress? how can we say in a higher education bill that

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Mark E. Souder: we believe in inquiry, that we believe in searching for knowledge, but when we have an amendment to protect students that might have a difference of opinion that we wouldn't even allow a vote?

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Betty Sue Sutton: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio. ms. sutton: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to take this opportunity to refresh the memory

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Speech By: Betty Sue Sutton