9250 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 155, Pt. 7 March 31, 2009 connection between a couple of the something we haven’t touched on yet want to point out that the Populist middle class values that we’ve been tonight but is a very important part of Caucus is not anti-trade. We are not talking about all night, and that is, the populist values, as articulated by protectionist, but we want American corporate accountability and how it af- you earlier, and that’s with respect to companies and American employees fects fair trade. And one of the things consumer protection. and American consumers to be on a that we know is that there are still You and I took a trip down to the level playing field with their competi- some lingering so-called free trade Port of Nogales last year to work with tors. And when you have trade agree- agreements that have been negotiated and get a firsthand view of some of the ments that don’t have the same level of by the Bush administration that are things we’re seeing with respect to the commitment to enforceability, then still on the table and are going to be border patrol. But one of the things we you don’t have a level playing field, considered in some way, shape or form did see is the fact that the Port of and that’s why fair trade agreements in the future. Nogales is one of the largest ports for are important to protect all interests And one of the trade agreements bringing fruits and vegetables into this in the United States. that’s still outstanding is President country, many of which are from Mex- And with that, I want to yield back Bush’s Panama Free Trade Agreement, ico. And one of the things that I think to my young friend from Virginia for and this is where we get into some of is very important is that we need to some closing comments and want to these values issues on corporate ac- ensure that the fruits, the vegetables, thank him for the important contribu- countability because the GAO recently the food that we eat, the toys that our tions and voice he has added to our did a study identifying Panama as one children play with are high quality. caucus. of eight countries, and the only current They need to be safe. Mr. PERRIELLO. Thank you for country and prospective trading part- We put these strict standards on do- yielding. I just want to take a moment ner, that was listed on all of the major mestically produced food, on the kind on this issue of trade. tax haven watchdog lists. In fact, Pan- of fertilizers that our farmers can use, I think there’s an attitude among the ama has been a key target of the Orga- on the kind of pesticides they can use, elites and among the mainstream nization for Economic Cooperation and to ensure that the food that they media that assumes anything other Development for resisting inter- produce is safe. And yet, we have these than blind, free trade is somehow idi- national norms in combating tax eva- free trade agreements and we have the otic, and there’s a concern that this sion and money laundering. ability of some other countries to bring populism is about mob rule. Well, popu- And now to tie this all into one big products into our country that don’t list values aren’t about pitchforks. bow, we’ve learned that AIG, arro- follow the same kind of protections and They’re about pragmatic results. gance, incompetence, greed, has sued don’t have the same kind of laws that And I think for every model someone the U.S. Government demanding more we have here, which I think jeopardizes can show me on free trade, I can show than $306 million in taxes it paid, twice the quality of the food we get and cer- you reality and empirics. This is not the amount of what it paid in the now tainly the products that we get. about a theory cooked up in academia infamous executive bonuses. So that’s something that’s so impor- about trade. It’s about the reality of Here is what AIG is claiming. AIG is tant to us, to the people that I rep- how the tiger economies and others claiming it overpaid taxes related to resent back home and I think the peo- have competed. It has not been some the activities of its AIG-linked Pan- ple all through America. blind march to trade liberalization. It amanian corporation, Star Inter- So it’s an important thing, and I has been smart, strategic decisions by national Company, which is chartered know we’re running out of time here, each of those countries to play to their in the tax haven of Panama. And if but I think it’s something that we need comparative advantages. President Bush’s Panama Free Trade to discuss more and we need to spend a I think that we have been negoti- Agreement is ratified, AIG’s largest great deal of time on here in Congress ating from a position of weakness in shareholder, which is this derivative in because there’s nothing more impor- these trade deals instead of negotiating Panama and other offshore companies, tant than keeping the food that we eat from strength, and I think it’s cost the would have expansive new rights to middle class and the working class challenge U.S. tax laws. and the goods that our family uses as safe as possible. jobs. I think sometimes there’s an in- In fact, there are currently 350,000 credibly naive attitude by those who foreign firms that are registered in Before I yield back, I would just like to say one last thing. You know, I want would look down their noses at those Panama where there are zero to low who would engage in middle class and regulations and taxing restrictions. So to quote another Roosevelt. I started populist values, when in fact I think we know that, if this treaty is ratified, off quoting Franklin Roosevelt. I want the empirics are on our side. these policies will inhibit the ability to to finish by quoting Teddy Roosevelt, and he said, The welfare of each of us So I think what’s important in this, protect the American people, crack again, is not that we pick up the pitch- down on money laundering and tax is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. That sounds an forks but that we produce results. I cheating and shady financial deals. think what we’re about is looking at So one of the things that we’ve awful lot like what President Obama is pragmatic solutions that take back learned is that there is linkage be- saying, that we’re all in this together. some of the raw deals that the middle tween the important concept of cor- We can’t forget that whether you’re a class has gotten for the last 20 years, porate accountability, fair trade poli- corporate executive or you’re a worker cies, and I want to yield to my friend on the line, what is good for the execu- particularly the last few years, and from New York to talk a little bit tive is good for the worker, and what is starts to stand up for those middle- about how those issues combine and good for the worker is good for the ex- class families and working class fami- how they affect the people that he rep- ecutive. lies who are getting up every morning resents in upstate New York. We are all in this together, and as my and working hard and playing by the Mr. ARCURI. Well, first off, I would colleague from Virginia said, it is im- rules and suddenly being asked to bear like to say thank you and commend portant that we remember the things the brunt of everyone else’s mistakes. my colleague from Virginia for his that we do affect each and every Amer- f well-thought-out and very articulate ican, regardless of where you are or b 2045 presentation with respect to corporate where you work. accountability. We certainly can use So, with that, I would again like to THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE that kind of passion here in Congress, thank my friend for organizing this The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. and I thank you for that, what you today. KRATOVIL). Under the Speaker’s an- said, and what you talked about. Mr. BRALEY of Iowa. I thank you, nounced policy of January 6, 2009, the You know, one of the things that I’d and before I yield to my friend from gentleman from Iowa (Mr. KING) is rec- like to talk about just for a moment is Virginia for a closing comment, I just ognized for 60 minutes.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 10:07 Aug 09, 2011 Jkt 059102 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR09\H31MR9.004 H31MR9 erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with BOUND RECORD March 31, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 155, Pt. 7 9251 Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I ap- have a different view on what is fair They have a right to life. We need to preciate the privilege to be recognized trade compared to what we will here in guarantee that right to life. That right here tonight. Before my colleagues the United States. to life trumps anyone’s right to lib- leave the floor, I hope they can hear a Those are the fundamental prin- erty, as much as the right to liberty little bit of an alternative viewpoint, ciples. If we go down this path of this trumps anyone else’s pursuit of happi- that being that this news flash, for es- nice feeling rhetoric of fair trade as op- ness. pecially my colleague from Iowa, cor- posed to having justice and equity and I can continue to give these exam- porations don’t pay taxes, Mr. Speaker. balance and free marketing, if we go ples, Mr. Speaker, but I think where we Corporations collect those taxes from down this path of seeking to tax cor- are at this point is, having laid the end users, consumers, retail people, porations and punish them, then we foundation, I recognize I have the gen- and then they aggregate the taxes from will continually be frustrated by trying tleman here from New Jersey, who has, the consumers and they pass them on to shape a policy that will never be I think, put together a very strong and to the Federal Government or State achieved. compelling case here in this Congress; government or whatever the tax col- And that would be my comments to someone who I can count on every time lecting body might be. the gentleman who I think gave a to be with us every day as we stand up For that reason, no matter what the heartfelt presentation here over the for the innocent unborn human life. circumstances are, we are not going to last hour, Mr. Speaker. He’s someone who brings a passion to be able to chase these corporations. I didn’t come, as I said, to talk about the scholarship, the conviction, the We’re not going to be able to chase that. I came here to the floor of the faith, the core principles to this cause, these corporations around the world House of Representatives tonight to an individual I get to count as a friend and collect that taxes from them be- talk about an issue that has to do with and a colleague and someone who it’s cause they will always find another innocent unborn human life and these an honor for me to be serve with. way to pay taxes or, of course, the obli- timeless values of the sacredness of the I’d yield to the gentleman from New unborn child and the sacredness of all gation they have it to pass it onto the Jersey (Mr. SMITH). human life. consumer. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank I have often made this case, espe- This is a fundamental principle when my good friend and colleague, Mr. cially to our high school and our mid- it comes to holding this economy to- KING, for his leadership, for his consist- dle school students, but also across gether and how we’re going to build the ency in promoting human rights, and this country, that we have these rights economy in this country and how we’re for bringing to this floor tonight an- that come from God, and they are de- going to compete with the rest the other opportunity for us to affirm the lineated in the Declaration of Inde- world. If we get that wrong, if we get it dignity and the value of all human life, pendence, Mr. Speaker. wrong and we think that we can some- What our Founders drafted in the including that of the unborn. Mr. Speaker, last week, Secretary of how squeeze this capital out of these Declaration of Independence are the corporations that have lost about 40 right to life and liberty and the pursuit State Hillary Clinton visited the percent of their asset value over the of happiness. That was not a random Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Gua- last year or so if you just simply look stream from the quill of Thomas Jef- dalupe in Mexico City, presented bou- at the Dow, you’ll find out that you ferson, Mr. Speaker. That was very spe- quet of flowers on behalf of the Amer- can drive this free-market economy cific, very carefully thought out, very ican people—a very nice gesture—and into oblivion and the free world will prosaic designed phrase—the right to then went on to Houston, Texas, to re- not make progress. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ceive the Margaret Sanger Award from So we need to get that fundamental ness. Prioritized rights, Mr. Speaker. Planned Parenthood. principle correct. We can’t simply get That right to life—the right to life is In her remarks, Secretary Clinton corporations to pay taxes without paramount to anyone’s liberty. And said she was ‘‘in awe’’—I repeat, ‘‘in them passing it on to consumers. And the right to liberty is paramount to awe’’—of Margaret Sanger, the founder that is the bottom line, Mr. Speaker. pursuit of happiness. of Planned Parenthood. To our distin- I didn’t come to talk about that, but So let me say that in my pursuit of guished Secretary of State, I respect- as I listened to my colleagues from the happiness, if I should encroach upon fully ask: Are you kidding? In ‘‘awe’’ of Populist Caucus—I discovered a new someone’s liberty, my pursuit of happi- Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, caucus here in the House of Represent- ness loses its right out of deference to ‘‘Eugenics is the most adequate and atives, Mr. Speaker—I raise another a higher priority right of liberty thorough avenue to the solution of ra- issue, the very vague and undefinable trumps pursuit of happiness. In pursuit cial, political, and social problems.’’ position of being for fair trade. of liberty, if I were to choose a pursuit And who also said in 1922, ‘‘The most If someone stands up and says they’re of liberty that would violate someone’s merciful thing that a family does to for fair trade, that means they’re not right to life, the right to life trumps one of its infant members is to kill it.’’ for free trade. They can be for free anyone’s pursuit of liberty. Later, in 1939, Sanger wrote, ‘‘We trade and for smart trade, but you So our Founders understood these should hire three or four colored min- can’t be for fair trade and also be for are prioritized rights. There’s a right isters, preferably with social service free trade. to life. That human life is sacred in all backgrounds and with engaging person- Now that might seem like a little bit of its forms and we have to choose a alities.’’ She wrote, ‘‘The most success- of alliteration gobbledegook, Mr. time, we have to choose an instant ful educational approach to the Negro Speaker, but the truth is that there is when life begins because we simply is through a religious appeal. We don’t no such thing as fair. Anyone who has cannot err. So I choose that instant at want the word to go out that we want raised more than one child—two or conception. Today, it’s conception/fer- to exterminate the Negro population,’’ more children, I might further define— tilization. When that happens, we have she goes on, ‘‘and the minister is the understands there’s no such thing as the biological beginning of life. man who can straighten out that idea fair. A three-year old can figure out I believe that’s the moment that God if it ever occurs to any of their more that their four-year old brother or sis- puts the soul in that little child. From rebellious members.’’ ter got an extra benefit along the way. that instant on, they’re a unique indi- Secretary Clinton in her speech said They’ll argue: That’s not fair. As soon vidual. There will never be another one that Margaret Sanger’s life and leader- as they argue that, of course its subjec- identical to that unique individual. ship was ‘‘one of the most trans- tive. And they are all the solutions to the formational in the entire history of the There’s no such thing as fair when it problems in the world, aside from those human race.’’ Mr. Speaker, trans- comes to raising children, there’s no that come from above, come from those formational, yes. But not for the better such thing as fair when it comes to little children that are coming into if one happens to be poor, trade, because another country will this world. disenfranchised, weak, a person of

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She was a self-de- rance, to afford the care and attention would exclude and exterminate from scribed pro-abortionist eugenist and a necessary for successful maternity. the human race. racist who considered charity care for ‘‘The effect of maternity endowments To me, and to many, including my impoverished, disenfranchised women, of maternity centers supported by pri- distinguished colleague in the well, the including women of color, especially vate philanthropy would have perhaps juxtaposition of the last week’s two pregnant women, to be ‘‘cruel.’’ already have had exactly the most very public events in Mexico City and In her book, ‘‘The Pivot of Civiliza- dysgenic tendency. The new govern- in Houston bring into sharp focus two tion,’’ Margaret Sanger devoted an en- ment program would facilitate the huge and irreconcilable world views. tire chapter that she entitled: ‘‘The function of maternity among the very On the one hand, the miracle of Our Cruelty of Charity,’’ to her inhumane classes in which the absolute necessity Lady of Guadalupe has for five cen- case for not helping—and I repeat is to discourage it. turies brought a message of hope, faith, that—not helping poor pregnant ‘‘Such benevolence,’’ she goes on to peace, reconciliation and protection for women with prenatal and maternal say, ‘‘is not merely superficial and the weakest, most vulnerable among care. nearsighted.’’ Sanger continues, ‘‘It us. On the other hand, each year, Mar- Sanger said in the book—and I read conceals a stupid cruelty. Aside from garet Sanger’s Planned Parenthood her book—‘‘We are paying for and even the question of the unfitness of many kills approximately 300,000 unborn submitting to the dictates of an ever women to become mothers, aside from baby girls and boys in their abortion increasing, unceasingly spawning class the very definite deterioration in the clinics scattered throughout the of human beings who never should have human stock that such programs would United States. been born at all.’’ inevitably hasten, we may question its Worldwide, the loss of innocent In chapter 5—again, chapter 5 is value even through the unfortunate human life at the hands of Planned called: ‘‘The Cruelty of Charity’’—she mother. Parenthood is in the millions. Planned writes, ‘‘Organized charity itself is the b 2100 Parenthood even supports the hideous symptom of a malignant social dis- Simon concludes, ‘‘The most serious brain-sucking method of abortion ease.’’ Sanger writes, ‘‘Those vast, charge that can be brought against called partial birth abortion. complex, interrelated organizations modern benevolence is that it encour- On a visit to the Basilica in Mexico aiming to control and diminish the ages’’—and I say this again—‘‘the per- City in 1999, Pope John Paul II publicly spread of misery and destruction and petuation of defectives, delinquents, entrusted protection of all at-risk all the menacing evils that spring out and dependents.’’ Such audacity, such human life, including especially un- of this sinisterly fertile soil are the an inhumane view of human life. born children and their mothers, to surest sign that our civilization has Mr. Speaker, in her speech at the Our Lady of Guadalupe because the bred, is breeding, and is perpetuating Planned Parenthood gala accepting the miracle she wrought 500 years ago re- constantly increasing numbers of Margaret Sanger award—and I have sulted in an end to the barbaric prac- defectives, delinquents, and depend- many other quotes from Sanger that I tice of human sacrifice to a serpent ents.’’ That’s Margaret Sanger, founder will put into the RECORD, and I invite God that claimed anywhere between of Planned Parenthood. Members and the American people to 20,000 and 50,000 victims a year. She continues, ‘‘My criticism there- look at those quotes, and there is so Indeed, the miraculous story of Our fore is not directed at the failure of much more. Lady of Guadalupe, known so well es- philanthropy but rather at its suc- But in her speech last Friday, Sec- pecially in Latin America, but really cess.’’ Sanger goes on to say, ‘‘There’s retary Clinton said she admired Sanger around the world, has been extraor- a special type of philanthropy or be- for her vision, was in awe of her, and dinarily compelling and inspirational nevolence now widely advertised and that Margaret Sanger’s work here and for centuries. advocated both as a Federal program in the United States and certainly In 1531, the Blessed Mother appeared and as worthy of private endowment, across the globe is not done. to Juan Diego, a native American at which strikes me,’’ that is to say San- Translated, ‘‘not done’’ means more Tepeyac, near Mexico City, and asked ger, ‘‘as being more insidiously inju- abortions here in the United States, in that a church be built on the site of the rious than any other. This concerns Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the apparition. The Catholic bishop was itself directly with the function of ma- world. Planned Parenthood’s mission skeptical and asked for a sign. At the ternity and aims to supply gratis med- statement, documents, and work in the behest of the Blessed Mother, and de- ical and nursing facilities to slum field make it absolutely clear that they spite the fact it was winter, Juan Diego mothers. seek a global unfettered right to com- gathered roses from the site into his ‘‘Such women are to be visited by mit violence against unborn children tilma for presentation to the Bishop. nurses and receive instruction in the at all stages of development. Planned When Juan Diego met with Bishop hygiene of pregnancy, to be guided in Parenthood seeks integration of all Juan de Zumarraga with the roses making arrangements for confinement, health care with abortion, with no con- tucked under his apron, a miraculous to be invited to come to the doctors’ science rights whatsoever for medical image suddenly appeared on the cloth. clinics for examination and super- practitioners, no parental consent or The Bishop was stunned, and he be- vision. They are, we are informed, to notification whatsoever for minors. lieved. The image of the Blessed Moth- receive adequate care during preg- And all of this paid for by the United er wasn’t painted. There are no brush nancy, at confinement, and for 1 month States taxpayer. strokes. To this day, the image defies afterwards. Thus, are mothers and ba- Which begs the question, Mr. Speak- all scientific explanation as to its ori- bies to be saved, childbearing is to be er. Is our Secretary of State unaware gin. made safe.’’ of Margaret Sanger’s inhumane beliefs? Within a few years of the miracle, Construing to demean the generosity Was she not briefed on Margaret more than 9 million Aztecs converted of pregnancy care centers, Margaret Sanger’s cruel and reckless disregard to Christianity and a strong devotion Sanger goes on to say, ‘‘The work of for poor, pregnant women? Respect- to Our Lady of Guadalupe began that the maternity centers in the various fully, Secretary Clinton should at a continues to this day. Each year, some American cities, which they have al- minimum return the Sanger award. 18 million to 20 million pilgrims visit ready been established and in which More importantly, Congress and the the miraculous image in Mexico City. they are supported by private contribu- White House must at long last take a Last Thursday, Hillary Clinton vis- tions and endowment, it is hardly nec- long, hard, second look at the multi- ited the shrine. On Friday, she paid essary to point out is carried out million, almost billion, dollar corpora- homage to Planned Parenthood and to among the poor and the most docile tion called Planned Parenthood, Child Margaret Sanger. section of the city, among mothers Abuse Incorporated.

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Worldwide but rather at its success. . . .’’ There is nothing whatsoever compas- the loss of innocent human life at the hands Sanger goes on to say, ‘‘there is a special sionate, benevolent, ennobling, benign, of Planned Parenthood is in the millions. type of philanthropy or benevolence, now or empowering about abortion. It is a Planned Parenthood even supports the hid- widely advertised and advocated, both as a violation of a child’s fundamental eous brain sucking method of abortion called federal program and as worthy of private en- human rights. partial birth abortion. dowment, which strikes me (Sanger) as being Rather than partnering with Planned On a visit to the Basilica in Mexico City in more insidiously injurious than any other. This Parenthood and like-minded NGOs to 1999, Pope John Paul II publicly entrusted concerns itself directly with the function of ma- promote abortion worldwide with hun- protection of all at risk innocent human life, in- ternity, and aims to supply gratis medical and dreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, cluding and especially unborn children and nursing facilities to slum mothers. Such the United States should affirm the in- their mothers, to Our Lady of Guadalupe be- women are to be visited by nurses and to re- herent value, dignity, worth of both cause the miracle she wrought 500 years ago ceive instruction in the ‘‘hygiene of preg- victims of abortion, mother and child. resulted in an end to the barbaric practice of nancy’’; to be guided in making arrangements We need to promote nonviolent, life-af- human sacrifice to a serpent god that claimed for confinements; to be invited to come to the firming solutions to women both here 20,000 to 50,000 victims a year. doctors’ clinics for examination and super- as well as abroad. Women deserve bet- Indeed, the miraculous story of Our Lady of vision. They are, we are informed, to ‘‘receive ter than abortion. We should always Guadalupe has been extraordinarly compelling adequate care during pregnancy, at confine- and in every way affirm the precious and inspirational for centuries. ment, and for one month afterward. Thus are lives of both. And on that score, Mar- In 1531, the Blessed Mother appeared to mothers and babies to be saved, ‘Childbearing garet Sanger and far too many others Juan Diego, a Native American at Tepeyac, is to be made safe.’ ’’ would disagree. near Mexico City, and asked that a church be Construing to demean the generosity of I strongly urge my colleagues to take built on the site of the apparition. pregnancy centers Sanger continues, ‘‘the that second look at Planned Parent- The Catholic Bishop was skeptical and work of the maternity centers in the various hood. It is time to respect the value asked for a sign. American cities in which they have already and the dignity of all human life. At the behest of the Blessed Mother, and been established and in which they are sup- Mr. Speaker, last week, Secretary of State despite the fact that it was winter, Juan Diego ported by private contributions and endow- Hillary Clinton visited the Catholic Basilica of gathered roses from the site into his tilma for ment, it is hardly necessary to point out, is Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, pre- presentation to the Bishop. carried on among the poor and more docile sented a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the When Juan Diego met with Bishop Juan de sections of the city, among mothers least able, American people—a nice gesture—and then Zumarraga with the roses tucked in his apron, through poverty and ignorance, to afford the went on to Houston, Texas to receive the Mar- a miraculous image suddenly appeared on the care and attention necessary for successful garet Sanger Award from Planned Parent- cloth. maternity. . . . The effect of maternity endow- hood. The Bishop was stunned, and believed. The ments and maternity centers supported by pri- In her remarks, Secretary Clinton said she image of the Blessed Mother wasn’t painted— vate philanthropy would have, perhaps already was ‘‘in awe’’ of Margaret Sanger, the founder there are no brush strokes—and to this day have had, exactly the most dysgenic tend- of Planned Parenthood. To our distinguished the image defies all scientific explanation as to ency. The new government program would fa- Secretary of State, I respectfully ask, are you its origin. cilitate the function of maternity among the kidding? In ‘‘awe’’ of Margaret Sanger who Within a few years of the miracle, more than very classes in which the absolute necessity is said in 1921 ‘‘Eugenics is . . . the most ade- 9 million Aztecs converted to Christianity and to discourage it.’’ quate and thorough avenue to the solution of strong devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe Such ‘‘benevolence’’ is not merely super- racial, political and social problems’’ and in began, that continues to this day. Each year ficial and nearsighted. 1922 said, ‘‘The most merciful thing that a some 18–20 million pilgrims visit the miracu- Sanger continues to write: ‘‘it conceals a family does to one of its infant members is to lous image in Mexico City. stupid cruelty . . . Aside from the question of kill it.’’ Last Thursday, Hillary Clinton visited the the unfitness of many women to become Later in 1939 Sanger wrote ‘‘We should hire Shrine. Then on Friday she paid homage to mothers, aside from the very definite deterio- three or four colored ministers, preferably with Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger. ration in the human stock that such programs social-service backgrounds, and with engaging Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned would inevitable hasten, we may question its personalities. The most successful educational Parenthood was a self-described pro-abortion value even to the normal though unfortunate approach to the Negro is through a religious eugenist and racist who considered charity mother.’’ appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that care for impoverished, disenfranchised Sanger concludes, ‘‘the most serious charge we want to exterminate the Negro population women, including women of color, especially that can be brought against modern ‘benevo- and the minister is the man who can straight- pregnant women, to be ‘‘cruel.’’ In her book, lence’ is that it encourages the perpetuation of en out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their the Pivot of Civilization, Margaret Sanger de- defectives, delinquents and dependents.’’ more rebellious members.’’ voted an entire chapter entitled ‘‘The Cruelty Sanger also said: Secretary Clinton said in her speech that of Charity’’ to her inhumane case of not help- ‘‘The most merciful thing that a family does Margaret Sanger’s ‘‘life and leadership’’ was ing—I repeat not helping—poor, pregnant to one of its infant members is to kill it.’’ ‘‘one of the most transformational in the entire women with prenatal and maternal care. ‘‘Birth control must lead ultimately to a history of the human race.’’ Mr. Speaker, Sanger said in the book, ‘‘We are paying for cleaner race.’’ transformational yes, but not for the better if and even submitting to the dictates of an ever Margaret Sanger, Woman, Morality, and one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, increasing, unceasingly spawning class of Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing weak, disabled, vulnerable, or among the human beings who never should have been Company, 1922. Page 12. many so called undesirables who Sanger born at all.’’ In Chapter 5 of that book Sanger ‘‘We should hire three or four colored min- would exclude and exterminate from the writes: isters, preferably with social-service back- human race. ‘‘... Organized charity itself is the symp- grounds, and with engaging personalities. The To me—to many—the juxtaposition of last tom of a malignant social disease. most successful education approach to the weeks two very public events—in Mexico City ‘‘Those vast, complex, interrelated organiza- Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t and in Houston—bring into sharp focus, two tions aiming to control and to diminish the want the word to go out that we want to exter- huge and irreconcilable world views. spread of misery and destitution and all the minate the Negro population and the minister On the one hand, the miracle of Our Lady menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly is the man who can straighten out that idea if of Guadalupe has for 5 centuries brought a fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civiliza- it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious message of hope, faith, love and protection for tion has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating members.’’

VerDate Mar 15 2010 10:07 Aug 09, 2011 Jkt 059102 PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 0688 Sfmt 9920 E:\BR09\H31MR9.004 H31MR9 erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with BOUND RECORD 9254 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE, Vol. 155, Pt. 7 March 31, 2009 Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 let- cising control over their numbers. Many of this firm the inherent value, dignity and worth of ter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of both victims of abortion—mother and child. Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: the pauper element dependent upon the nor- We need to promote both at home and Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North mal and fit members of society for their sup- abroad. We should always and in every way Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in port. There is no doubt in the minds of all affirm the precious lives of both. On that Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s thinking people that the procreation of this score, Margaret Sanger and far too many oth- Right: A Social History of Birth Control in group should be stopped.’’ ers would disagree. America. New York: Grossman Publishers, Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth I thank my good friend and yield 1976. Control: What It Is, How It Works, What It Will back to him. ‘‘Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need . . . Do. The Proceedings of the First American Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gen- We must prevent multiplication of this bad Birth Control Conference. Held at the Hotel tleman from New Jersey. And I appre- stock.’’ Plaza, New York City, November 11–12, 1921. ciate the privilege to stand here and Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Published by the Birth Control Review, Gothic hear those words, the nonviolent, life- Review. Press, pages 172 and 174. affirming philosophy that we are here ‘‘Eugenics is . . . the most adequate and ‘‘The marriage bed is the most degenerative and that we join together in, and the thorough avenue to the solution of racial, polit- influence in the social order . . .’’ question that was presented, that is ical and social problems. Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman this question: Did Hillary Clinton un- Margaret Sanger. ‘‘The Eugenic Value of Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in derstand? Did the Secretary of State Birth Control Propaganda.’’ Birth Control Re- Woman and the New Race. New York: understand the cruel, racist, elitist view, October 1921, page 5. Brentanos Publishers, 1922. philosophy of Margaret Sanger in ‘‘As an advocate of birth control I wish . . . ‘‘[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratifi- whose name she accepted the award? to point out that the unbalance between the cation without the burden of unwanted children Did she understand the implications birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ admittedly . . .’’ that come with such an award? the greatest present menace to civilization, Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman And I don’t know the answer to that, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Mr. Speaker. But I have to believe that cradle competition between these two classes. Woman and the New Race. New York: someone who has been engaged in pub- In this matter, the example of the inferior Brentanos Publishers, 1922. lic policy all of her life, even as an un- classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the ‘‘Give dysgenic groups [people with ‘bad dergraduate at Yale, this is not some- mentally defective, the poverty-stricken class- genes’] in our population their choice of seg- thing that has not crossed her mind. I es, should not be held up for emulation . . . regation or [compulsory] sterilization.’’ cannot believe that the Secretary of ‘‘On the contrary, the most urgent problem Margaret Sanger, April 1932 Birth Control State would be ignorant of the philos- today is how to limit and discourage the over- Review. ophy of Margaret Sanger. I cannot be- fertility of the mentally and physically defec- In her speech at the Planned Parenthood lieve that. If that were the case, then I tive.’’ Gala, accepting the Margaret Sanger award, would suspect that she is ignorant of Margaret Sanger. ‘‘The Eugenic Value of Secretary Clinton said she admired Sanger for many other things, and I don’t buy Birth Control Propaganda.’’ Birth Control Re- her ‘‘vision,’’ was in ‘‘awe of her’’ and that that. I think this is a well-educated, view, October 1921, page 5. ‘‘Margaret Sanger’s work here in the United very astute lady, a smart lady. ‘‘The campaign for birth control is not mere- States and certainly across the globe is not And as I listened to the gentleman ly of eugenic value, but is practically identical done.’’ from New Jersey’s presentation, I with the final aims of eugenics.’’ Translated, ‘‘not done’’ means more abor- think about something that takes us Margaret Sanger. ‘‘The Eugenic Value of tions here in the United States, in Latin Amer- even to another level here, and this is Birth Control Propaganda.’’ Birth Control Re- ica, Africa, Asia—the world. Planned Parent- a statement where we have an indi- view, October 1921, page 5. hood’s mission statement, documents, and vidual that has been nominated into ‘‘Our failure to segregate morons who are work in the field make it absolutely clear that this administration in a confirmation, increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates they seek a global unfettered right to commit a Senate confirmation position, Office our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism violence against unborn children at all stages of Legal Counsel, who actually is even . . . [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier of development. Planned Parenthood seeks more of an advocate of abortion and and more normal sections of the world to integration of all health care with abortion, with someone who even takes the position of shoulder the burden of unthinking and indis- no conscience rights whatsoever for medical Margaret Sanger to another level, and criminate fecundity of others; which brings with practitioners, no parental consent or notifica- that is Dawn Johnsen, Office of Legal it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead tion for minors, and all paid for by the tax- Counsel. And I have a quote. weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing payers. Now, Dawn Johnsen has been ap- and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are Which begs the question: is our Secretary of pointed, Mr. Speaker, to head up the most detrimental to the future of the race and State unaware of Margaret Sanger’s Office of Legal Counsel. This is the the world, it tends to render them to a men- unhumane beliefs? Was she not briefed on most influential, most powerful posi- acing degree dominant . . . We are paying Margaret Sanger’s cruel and reckless dis- tion that you have never heard of if for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an regard for poor pregnant women? Respect- you are an average, regular person in ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class fully, Secretary Clinton should at a minimum America. of human beings who never should have been return the Sanger award. More importantly, The Office of Legal Counsel provides born at all.’’ Congress and the White House must, at long opinions on the constitutionality of Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, last take a long hard second look at the multi- the activities of the entire administra- 1922. Chapter on ‘‘The Cruelty of Charity,’’ million corporation Planned Parenthood—Child tion, and gives advice to the President pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Abuse Inc. of the United States. Library edition. Let’s be honest, Mr. Speaker. Abortion is vi- The Office of Legal Counsel, the per- ‘‘The undeniably feeble-minded should, in- olence against children. It dismembers and son who heads that up, this would be deed, not only be discouraged but prevented chemically poisons a child to death. It hurts Dawn Johnsen, should she be confirmed from propagating their kind.’’ women physically and psychologically and by the United States Senate, has the Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles spiritually. There is nothing whatsoever com- opportunity to whisper into the Presi- Valenza. ‘‘Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?’’ passionate, benevolent, ennobling, benign or dent’s ear over and over again Con- Family Planning Perspectives, January–Feb- empowering about abortion. It is a violation of stitutional recommendations, which ruary 1985, page 44. a child’s fundamental human rights. are actually considered to be binding ‘‘The third group [of society] are those irre- Rather than partnering with Planned Parent- precedent unless it happens to be over- sponsible and reckless ones having little re- hood and like minded NGOs to promote abor- turned by the courts, so very seriously gard for the consequences of their acts, or tion worldwide, with hundreds of millions of taken, and the opportunity to advocate whose religious scruples prevent their exer- taxpayer dollars, the United States should af- for policy.

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But here is Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank have come to the agonizing conclusion Dawn Johnsen’s statement: the gentleman for bringing that up. that I have presided over 60,000 The notion of legal restrictions as Back in 1984, when President Reagan deaths.’’ And then he became a pro- some kind of reasonable compromise, first announced the Mexico City policy, lifer. And now he has spoken out for perhaps to help make abortion safe, it was designed to separate abortion many years on behalf of the human legal, and rare, thus proves nonsen- from family planning. It got its name, rights of the unborn, and that the sical. as I know the gentleman knows, Mex- women are injured, the babies are vic- In other words, she even took issue ico City policy because it was at a U.N. timized and killed, and that this death with Hillary Clinton’s position that conference that the venue was in Mex- and destruction to our offspring and to abortion should at least be rare. I will ico City; hence, its name. But it was a our women and to mothers must cease. give Hillary Clinton that, Mr. Speaker, very well calibrated, very thoughtful We now are exporting. We don’t ex- that she has at least made the state- policy which said that there ought to port enough. We certainly don’t export ment, whether she has followed be a very bright line of demarcation be- enough commodities. Our economy has through on it or not. And she has ac- tween family planning and abortion, been hurting for a number of months cepted the Margaret Sanger award, and that we would only fund those for- now and even years. What we are ex- which would actually contradict this eign nongovernmental organizations porting, tragically, is abortion, and the statement about abortion being rare. that divested themselves of lobbying, taxpayers of America are the ones who Margaret Sanger’s philosophy was promoting, and performing abortions are subsidizing that, enabling that pro- very elitist, very racist, very much fo- as a method of family planning. motion of abortion in Africa and Latin cused on the idea of eugenics, and that It was a policy that worked. NGOs America and elsewhere. we could perfect the species of Homo got funding. We are the largest pro- There was a famous movie years ago, sapiens by selective breeding processes vider of family planning in the world. and my friend and colleague from Iowa and by selective abortions. And data But now, the organizations that will probably saw it, The Ugly American. shows that in the African American receive those funds, and we are talking You know, I love what we can do for- community, as much as 50 percent of about over one-half billion dollars per eign policy-wise to help and to ennoble the African American babies conceived year of taxpayer funding, will be used and to make healthier people around in the United States of America meet to promote abortions in Africa, in the world, whether it be on AIDS treat- their death by abortion. Half of the Latin America, in Asia, Europe, every- ments and all the other things that population that would be here, that where where the law still protects and occur internationally, hunger allevi- could laugh, live, love, play, contribute safeguards the sanctity of human life. ation, clean water, safe blood. to this society, be part of this whole Most of the African countries, most b 2115 America, could enjoy a right to life and of the countries in Latin America pro- But abortion takes all that. It tells the right to fulfillment of that life lose tect the lives of their innocent unborn people in the developing world, just that right to life in the abortion clin- children as a matter of human rights. like the vision of Margaret Sanger that ics. Now, abortion organizations, backed we don’t want you. That your children And if I listened right to the gen- with huge subsidies from the Federal are not—are dehumanized and are ex- tleman from New Jersey, 300,000 alto- Government—and President Obama pendable. As the great Henry Hyde gether meet their end annually here in was the one who signed the executive used to say, liable to extermination. the United States of America at the order that reversed the Mexico City You can terminate the innocent and in- hands of Planned Parenthood and their policy. And, as the gentleman said, and convenient with such ease. Who is to abortion clinics, 300,000 out of perhaps I offered the amendment on the floor speak out for them? They can’t speak a number that is around 4,000 a day, that he was talking about that regret- for themselves because of their imma- multiplied across every day here in the tably failed, the misguided cheers and turity and their dependency. United States. And this is just the happiness about giving money to an or- So I congratulate the gentleman be- United States of America. ganization that completely targets in- cause the time has come, the time has Then we have the Advocacy for Inter- nocent babies in the womb for destruc- truly come for America to begin a national Abortion, which comes con- tion. great awakening when it comes to the tinually here. Every year we deal with We live in 2009. As the gentleman value, the dignity and the sanctity of that debate. knows, ultrasound technology, pre- human life. Abortion is violence Mr. Speaker, I remember this debate natal surgeries have shattered the against children. Despite all of the that we had on the floor here where we myth that an unborn child is human platitudes, all of the cheap sophistry stand. It was the first debate on the and alive. Of course they are. A child in that routinely is employed to cover up Mexico City policy that took place in utero may need a blood transfusion or abortion, it is violence. Dismembering the 110th Congress, the first debate on microsurgery or some other interven- a child, chemically poisoning a child, Mexico City policy that fell under- tion, medically speaking, to abate or inducing a miscarriage whereby the neath the gavel of Speaker PELOSI. mitigate some anomaly before birth. I child then dies very early because of And I remember those of us who chair the Spina Bifida Caucus. Some of the inability to cope after being sepa- stand up for innocent, unborn human the early interventions for spina bifida rated from the mother, all of these life lost that debate and lost that vote children can have a marvelous quality methods of abortion have one goal in here. And I will never forget looking of life impact later on, from birth on. mind, the killing of the unborn child. across over on this side, Mr. Speaker, But you do it before birth. Recently I watched and read a state- where I saw the advocates that thought Bernard Nathanson, as my distin- ment that Father Pavone, a priest for that they wanted to compel American guished colleague knows, was the lead- life actually put together. And he taxpayers to fund abortions in foreign ing abortionist in the seventies. He talked about Dr. Haskell, who is the lands clapping, cheering, jumping up founded, along with Betty Friedan and man who came up with the partial- and down, hugging each other, maybe Lawrence Lader, NARAL, one of the birth abortion method. And one of the even in tears of joy, for compelling biggest pro-abortion organizations in main reasons why, and maybe the pri- Americans to fund abortions in foreign this country. He changed positions mary reason why that method was

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To look at, as tionist can go in and turn that child abortion didn’t produce a live birth. you pointed out, what Dawn Johnson around so the baby is born breech, that Years ago, the Philadelphia Inquirer, has said when she says ‘‘Women are not being feet first, and bring that baby to which is just south of my district, had fetal containers,’’ that degrades the delivery for everything but the head a big story called ‘‘The Dreaded Com- beauty and the magnificence of and in fact, part of the head, and then, plication’’ and spoke about the fact procreation and of life and the way we hold the baby there so that the baby that every year something on the order all came into this world. isn’t fully born and then take a scalpel of 500 children survived later-term So I thank the gentleman for this and insert that into the back of the abortions only to die maybe a day time and hope that there will be a new, skull and put some scissors in there later, several hours later, but some a re-evaluation, a new reappraisal of and open up the hole and suck the went on to be adopted. For the abor- what the culture of death has done. brains out of that child while that tionist, this was a complication, a Fifty million unborn children have child struggles for life and struggles for dreaded one. So Haskell and others de- been killed since 1973, a staggering loss mercy, it occurs to me as I picked up cided to do away with that possibility of human life. And as you have pointed the film, ‘‘Silent Scream’’ years ago by completely collapsing the brain cav- out previously, Mr. KING, there has when our children were about 10 or 12 ity and sucking the brains out of a been a very suspicious dispropor- years old and showed that to them one child. We get accused of inflammatory tionality when it comes to how many time, and one time was enough, that si- rhetoric by the pro-abortion side when African Americans have been killed. lent scream, the word of that movie we describe what it is that they do in And many, including Dr. King and oth- that showed the violence of abortion, it abortion clinics. It is violence. It hurts ers, are more than suspicious, espe- occurs to me that this society can’t women. cially given Margaret Sanger’s and abide the screams of the innocent. And And finally, as Dr. Elvita King has others’ viewpoint about who is desir- so they had to devise a means of abor- said so eloquently—the niece of Dr. able and who is undesirable. So I tion that would stop the life of that in- Martin Luther King, a woman who strongly urge this re-evaluation. It nocent child an inch before that child used to be on the other side of this needs to take place now. could fill its lungs full of free air and issue, who had two abortions herself, Finally, and I said ‘‘finally’’ before, scream for its own mercy. That, I and has spoken out on behalf of the un- but this will be final, President Obama think, is the psychology behind this. born child and his or her mother—abor- sadly and tragically, with the enor- Even the abortionists couldn’t stand tion is the ultimate civil rights move- mous support and the wellspring of the sound of the scream of the child ment of our day. She is the niece of goodwill that is being afforded him, is screaming for its own mercy. And I Martin Luther King. She knows a thing the abortion President. Every move he think that is how partial-birth abor- or two about human rights and civil has made, whether it be the reversal of tion was devised. rights. And she says that as a society, Mexico City, his embrace of the Free- I would pose this question to the gen- it is time to look carefully, get rid of dom of Choice Act, which may come up tleman from New Jersey, and having the platitudes, get rid of the euphe- on this floor some time, we don’t know been the individual that offered the misms that have stifled true debate, when, the move to get rid of conscience amendment to preserve the Mexico words like ‘‘choice.’’ Choice to do protections that men and women in the City policy and having lost that debate what? To destroy an unborn child in a medical profession absolutely need so and lost that vote on this floor, and very vicious way. We need to protect they are not complicit in killing inno- having seen the display of glee and joy both. cent human life, taxpayer funding for and hugging and clapping and cheering One of the most beautiful things of abortion, the embrace of embryonic and perhaps even tears of joy on this the group that she is a part of called stem-cell research at a time when in- side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, the joy ‘‘Silent No More,’’ made up exclusively duced pluripotent stem cells, which are that they were going to compel the of women who have had abortions, is embryo like but do not require the kill- American taxpayers to fund abortions that they reach out to women who are ing of an embryo and can come right in foreign lands, what kind of a person, in crisis, who have the post-traumatic off your skin and mine and be manipu- the sons and daughters, the grandsons stress disorder, have grave misgivings, lated in a way that will be lifesaving, and granddaughters of Margaret San- not right away, but maybe a couple cord blood, all the adult stem cells, the ger, the mother of abortion, the moth- years later, maybe several years later, alternatives to embryonic work, em- er of ‘‘family planning’’ in quotes, the and say there is a path to reconcili- bryonic has not worked, and yet with eugenic idea of producing a more per- ation and peace. That is what the pro- great fanfare he has embraced that at fect race, Hitlerian idea, what could life movement is all about. We have every turn. And the one that the gen- cause a person to be so full of joy about never been about judgment. We have tleman brings to the floor tonight, compelling you or me or the people always been about enfranchisement. Dawn Johnson, in what is truly an out- who agree with us to fund abortions in Protect the baby. Protect the mother rageous view, an inhumane view, a foreign lands? I can’t understand that, in the first place. And for those who tragic view towards the sanctity of life, Mr. SMITH. And I would be very inter- have already had abortions, who like people of her kind and people with her ested in your analysis. Martin Luther King’s niece, Elvita perspective are embedded all over the Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I say to King in Silent No More and other Obama administration and will daily my good friend, Mr. KING, I have been women who have bravely spoken out on be promoting and proffering policies, offering the Mexico City Policy since behalf of the unborn and their mothers, very often in a stealthy way, that will 1984. I have been here for 29 years, and there are two victims, one is killed, promote the culture of death. I offered it the first time. And I re- one is injured. They need our help, our And to our friends in Africa, Latin member members on the other side of love and our compassion. America and elsewhere, watch out. The the aisle saying that none of the family Unfortunately, they don’t get that abortionists are coming. And they are planning NGOs will take the money from the other side. It is called ‘‘em- coming from the Obama administra- with that kind of conditionality. They powerment.’’ There is nothing empow- tion. I thank my friend. were so focused and filled with their ering about destroying an unborn Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gen- wanting to provide abortions. child. And it is time—and I would hope, tleman from New Jersey. And I would That didn’t happen. NGOs lined up. as the gentleman would hope, that hope that he can stand by. I have a The money went out the door. And we there would be a campaign that men couple of questions I would like to had that line of demarcation between and women in America, Members of present that way and first make a abortion and family planning for years.

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However I then the full Mexico City Policy back. that happens to each and every one of might try to rationalize their emo- President Bush, by executive order, re- us, and that those children in utero are tions, when you tie the two of them to- established it, and family planning no less human and alive than you and gether, it’s almost unexplainable. I moneys flowed, but without abortion me. They are definitely dependent. can’t explain an emotion or thought promotion or performance. They are immature, as is a newborn, as process that would want to end inno- And then, President Obama, like I is a 1 year old. And a compassionate cent human life and consider it to be a said, just a couple of days after being and sane society would seek to enfran- right, a fundamental right. sworn in, re-established, or reversed I chise, not disenfranchise. So I ask this question, and I ask this should say, the Mexico City Policy So when they expressed on the other question continually in our public with more money now flowing to those side, and a few on our side of the aisle, schools and our parochial schools organizations. Why the joy and the happiness over the loss of the Mexico across the land when I have the chance. happiness on the side of those who pro- City policy, it was very clear to me. I And I say, especially to young people, mote abortion? It is bewildering in the had nothing but sorrow because there you’ll be called upon to make a pro- extreme. Father Pavone’s Web site, and is one predictable consequence, more found moral decision in this society I encourage people to check it out, he dead babies and more wounded moth- and this civilization; if you’re 14, 15, 16, talks about a meeting when this Dr. ers. 18 years old, 19, 20 years old, you will, Haskell, the man who devised this I yield back. or you will be among those who will child-abuse method called partial-birth have to make that profound decision, b 2130 abortion, as you pointed out where the the moral decision. baby’s brains are literally sucked out, Mr. KING of Iowa. I thank the gen- And you ask only two questions. It’s he presented that method, as Father tleman from New Jersey. And as I lis- very simple, and it’s this simple. The Pavone points out in one of his speech- tened to that description of the audi- first question is, do you believe in the es, it actually has much about what ence breaking into applause at a video sanctity of human life? Is human life happened in this conference, and the of a baby who has been a victim of par- sacred in all of its forms? Is your life conference was filled with abortionists. tial birth abortion, had its brain sacred? Is the person next to you, is And when the baby actually died, it sucked out and stopped struggling, it their life sacred, people on either side, was being killed, because he had it all became apparent that the baby was are their lives sacred? And it becomes on film, they broke into applause at dead, that they would cheer, break into almost a universal yes. I’ve actually the demise, at the death of that child. applause, that indexes to the cheer and never had a student say, no, I don’t That is pathetic. It is beyond tragic. the applause and the hugging that think so. I don’t think my life is sacred I said during the debate, and remember went on here when the Mexico City and I shouldn’t be treated in a sacred Bill Clinton vetoed partial-birth abor- Policy was defeated on the floor of the fashion. I’ve never had that happen. tion not once but twice, that when my House of Representatives, Mr. Speaker. They nod their heads. It’s universal young girls, and we have two girls, four And I understood it differently. And I that we believe that life, human life is children totally, but when they were think it was because of a gap in the sacred in all of its forms. young, if they were to play ‘‘doctor,’’ knowledge and experience that’s been So once we establish the answer, yes, the girls, and take their dolls as they filled in by Mr. SMITH from New Jersey. to the first question, is human life sa- had when they were 5 and 6, turn them I explained that emotion over here as cred, the only question to follow that around and pierce the back of their not being a rational, logical emotion, up with is, then at what instant does skulls and then suck their brains out, but an emotion that simply divorced life begin? You have to choose an in- we would seek, as would any parent, itself from the sacred nature of human stant. And I describe it this way. You immediate counseling. Something life, and was simply cheering because can’t guess at it. What if somebody would be wrong. When someone em- they had scored a victory over our side. came by the gymnasium or the audito- braces the death of a child, something And how could anyone go through rium and stuck a gun in the door and is very, very dangerously wrong. life and think they had accomplished turned their head the other way and I have seen on this floor time and something by compelling others to pulled the trigger and ran down the again—and I would say we won the de- fund abortions in foreign lands? That’s hallway without looking back. If they bate, I would say to my friend, but lost a psychology that I cannot connect were captured outside the building, you the vote on Mexico City Policy. And with, Mr. Speaker. And so I could only could ask them, did you kill somebody when we have lost fights on partial- rationalize it on the part that they or didn’t you? And their answer might birth abortion, for example, not in vote know we hold innocent life dear. We be, I don’t know. But we know that if count, but in vetoes by the previous ad- hold all human life dear. And we be- the gymnasium emptied and there’s ministration, it never ceases to amaze lieve that it’s sacred in all of its forms, someone in there who’s dead, with a me that one could be joyous over al- from the instant at conception and fer- bullet hole in them, yes, the answer is, lowing, facilitating and enabling more tilization to natural death. he did kill somebody. death to children and more wounding And Mr. SMITH, among others, have And if it results in a dead baby, of their mothers. been one of the stalwarts in leading someone was killed. And you cannot That is what this is all about. I be- and defending innocent human life, es- guess when it comes to life. You can’t lieve passionately, and I have been in pecially in this Congress. And I err when it comes to life. You must Congress 29 years, and I spend much of thought that that cheer was for having choose that instant that life begins. It my time working on human rights scored points against the value system, can’t be a first trimester, a second tri- issues, humanitarian issues around the the core value system of those of us on mester, a third trimester; it can’t be world, whether it be in Africa working this side. viability outside the womb. We know it on human trafficking or on trying to Mr. Speaker, I’m not sure of that, be- goes up beyond 24 weeks or below 24 mitigate and stop terrible things like cause the people sitting inside that weeks for viability today. There’s no torture. I wrote four torture victims room who were watching that film of baby that’s born, now, 9 months, full- relief acts—laws—they are not bills, that partial birth abortion, the strug- term that really is viable without they are laws, and many, many other gling child who ceased to struggle being nurtured by its mother and by its laws, microcredit financing for the de- when it’s obvious that the baby was parents. And they’ve got to be nur- veloping world, three human traf- dead, that broke into a cheer, they tured. And so whether it’s the instant

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And I don’t remember that I on Sunday, talking with my daughter- the skin, and the ability of the body to thought this through on that day, but in-law, who’s the mother of our third dampen pain has not matured suffi- I remember going to work the next day grandchild. And I told her that I’m ciently. and I was sitting there thinking this jealous because I’ll never get to be a There’s a method of abortion known through. And I still believe there’s a mom. And yet, no matter what she as the D&E. The method literally in- certain aura about that firstborn child. wants to do with her career, some of volves hacking off the arms and the And I asked myself, here’s this mir- that career is going to be slowed down legs of an unborn child, decapitation, acle that’s been in my arms within the because she’s busy being a mom. takes upwards of 30 minutes for that last hours. This little child, this mir- And she looked at me and she said, I method to effectuate its kill. And at acle, could someone take his life know you’re jealous. You’ve told me least in the beginning moments of that today? And of course the answer is no. that before. You’ll never be a mom. abortion, the child feels excruciating Could they have taken his life yester- And I think being a mom is worth the pain. day, the day he was born? No. Could tradeoff of slowing down my career be- Today, because of the great work of they do so the minute after he was cause I think it’s great being a mom. people like Dr. Anand and others, when born? No. The minute before he was And that’s the love that flows. That prenatal surgeries are performed and born? No. What about 10 minutes be- lady is not a fetal container. She’s a the child needs to be surgically opened fore or 2 hours before or a day or a mother, a mother that’s brought love up to do some procedure that is benign week or a month before he was born? to each of the children that God’s gift- and life-affirming, he or she gets anes- The answer is no, no and no, Mr. ed this family with, just like the mil- thesia. An unborn child gets no such Speaker. And so if you can’t do that, if lions and millions of mothers across consideration. We treat animals with it’s abhorrent to us to think about the the planet who have done so, done so more benevolence and in a more caring idea of ending the life of our unborn out of love, out of faith, out of convic- way in terms of pain mitigation than child a day, a week or a month before tion. we do unborn children. That legislation should be on this they’re born, just as we couldn’t think And I can’t understand the people floor. A child should not only not suf- of that a day a week or a month after that would cheer and celebrate the tax fer the cruelty of being killed, but also they’re born, then we’ve got to take dollars of American people going to the pain that goes along with it. Most this back to an instant, an instant that any place that provides abortion serv- Americans are woefully unaware. Some their life begins. And it’s that simple. ices and counseling. of my colleagues, our colleagues are And this has become a political argu- That is what happens, Mr. Speaker. probably woefully unaware as well that ment that’s destroyed the lives of 50 And I know the gentleman from New pain is real for these children as they million babies, to the point where we Jersey has a few more words. Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Just a die a death due to abortion. argue that this civilization has a hole I yield back. in it, in the generation. couple of final comments. And I again Mr. KING of Iowa. And I very much I remember standing down on the thank my friend and colleague for his thank the gentleman from New Jersey. Mall, this would be, I believe, a year leadership on this fundamental human And it brings to mind an image that ago, January 22, on the March for Life. rights issue of protecting the unborn many of us have seen of an in-utero And if you looked out across that Mall, child. surgery where that—not only does that there were over 100,000 there that day. You know, the most persecuted mi- little unborn child feel the pain, but This year there was a far bigger num- nority in the world today are unborn that little child reached up out of the ber in the March for Life, many, many children. The acceptable bias today is incision and grasped the finger of the young people. abortion. To be prejudiced against un- surgeon. I’ll never forget that image. And I made the point that if you are born children is somehow acceptable. And it was something that floated under 30 years old, and you’re standing It’s certainly legal in this country. And around the Internet for a long time, next to somebody that’s under 30 years that is a very significant tragedy for and I think it would be worth bringing old, look at each other. And the ghost our society. to this floor. Very, very human. of one-third of your generation stands It is time we called it for what it is. And as I listened to Mr. SMITH, the between you. That’s the aborted gen- It is child abuse, abortion. It is vio- gentleman from New Jersey, I have to eration, the generation that didn’t lence against children. It is prejudice. reflect back on our dear departed have that opportunity for life, the gen- And I would hope that Members—you friend and colleague, Henry Hyde, who eration that are the victims of Mar- know, I’ve heard some of our finest was a stalwart on the life issue. And I garet Sanger, the victims of a political leaders in the pro-life movement say wrote this down from the back of the agenda, the victims of a lack of belief over the years that Americans won’t program at his funeral in Chicago that in the sanctity of human life, the peo- stop abortion until they see it. We have day. His last day on this Earth was No- ple that would argue that babies are in- to push away the euphemisms that vember 29, 2007. And I think it’s a good convenient, that an abortion should have cloaked this for the last three place, Mr. Speaker, to close this spe- never be rare, the people like Dawn decades and figure it out, not figure it cial order with a quote from Henry Johnsen who would argue that mothers out, just simply spend some time focus- Hyde. And he said this: are fetal containers. My mother a fetal ing on what it is that the abortionist ‘‘When the time comes, as it surely container? CHRIS SMITH’s mother a does. It is violence against children. It will, when we face that awesome mo- fetal container? That the only emotion actually engenders pain for the unborn ment, the final judgment, I’ve often you feel—this is Dawn Johnsen again— child. thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that the only emotion you feel when you My friend and colleague will know it’s a terrible moment of loneliness. have an abortion is relief, not trauma; that 3 years ago, 4 years ago I offered You have no advocates. You are there that it never comes back to you; that legislation on this floor called the Un- alone, standing before God. And a ter- it’s simply off one’s conscience. born Child Pain Awareness Act. We got ror will rip through your soul like We know that that has motivated— 250 votes, bipartisan votes for at least nothing you can imagine. But I really that women deserve better—the organi- advising a woman that, from at least think that those in the pro-life move- zation that CHRIS SMITH talked about. the 20th week on, her child might feel ment will not be alone. I think there

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The President signed it. say to God, spare him because he loved not sign any nonemergency bill with- Big government: In the joint address us, and God will look at you and say out giving the American public an op- to Congress, the President said, ‘‘Not not did you succeed, but did you try.’’ portunity to review and comment on because I believe in bigger govern- Mr. Speaker, I will yield back. the White House Web site for 5 days.’’ ment—I don’t.’’ Now, I want to believe f That does not happen on a regular the President when he says he doesn’t basis, and it is wrong. It needs to believe in big government, but we have b 2145 change. We need to live up to those the single largest expansion of govern- THE CONCERN OF AMERICA’S campaign commitments. They are not ment in the history of the United FUTURE DIRECTION happening now. States happening, one of the largest The American people were promised tax increases in the history of the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under that lobbyists would not be partici- United States of America. the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- pants in this administration. On the So, when I look at the President’s uary 6, 2009, the gentleman from Utah Barack Obama Web site, it says, ‘‘No budget, when I look at what NANCY (Mr. CHAFFETZ) is recognized for 60 political appointees in an Obama-Biden PELOSI is proposing as the Speaker of minutes. administration will be permitted to the House, Mr. Speaker, I have serious Mr. CHAFFETZ. Thank you. I appre- work on regulations or contracts di- questions and reservations because I ciate the impassioned gentlemen and rectly and substantially related to believe that this budget that I am their commitment to a pro-life agenda. their prior employer for 2 years, and no looking at and that we are going to be I truly do. political appointee will be able to asked to vote on very soon spends far I stand tonight and rise because of lobby the executive branch after leav- too much money; it taxes us on too my concern about the direction of this ing government service during the re- much money, and it borrows too much country. I was elected here as a fresh- mainder of the administration.’’ That money. We are fundamentally compro- man. I did not create this problem in is not happening. That is not hap- mising our future. Washington, D.C., but I am here to help pening. You know, I have worked for big clean it up. We have the greatest op- During the campaign, we talked companies. I have worked for small portunities ahead of us. The United about there being no tax hikes on the companies. I have owned my own com- States of America is the single greatest poor. On September 12, 2008, in Dover, pany. I have spent 16-plus years in the country on the face of the planet, and New Hampshire, the President said, ‘‘I local business community. I have hired every time we are faced with a chal- can make a firm pledge. Under my people in the past, and there is a funda- lenge, we overcome the obstacles that plan, no family making less than mental thing that I look for. I just are thrown ahead of us. I would like to $250,000 a year will see any form of tax want to hire people who will do what see our government get out of the way increase—not your income tax, not they say they are going to do. I think and stop being an impediment. I want your payroll tax, not your capital the American people should demand to make sure that it is the American gains tax, not any of your taxes.’’ What that with regard to what is happening entrepreneur who is emboldened. It has was one of the first bills that the Presi- in Washington, D.C. I think we should always been the American entre- dent signed? A tax increase. It was the demand that at every level of govern- preneur who has driven this country SCHIP bill. It was under the disguise ment. forward. that we were going to help children Earlier today, we saw the next nomi- As I rise today, my concern is that with their health care insurance. He nee for the Secretary of Health and often what we hear and see in Wash- raised the taxes on cigarettes. That af- Human Services admitting that she ington, D.C., is not a reflection of the fects a host of Americans. Now, I don’t had failed to pay taxes. Shouldn’t there reality. The rhetoric has been very smoke; I don’t advocate smoking, but be a standard, a level, that says, ‘‘You strong, but with all due respect to our the reality is there are a whole lot of know what? If you can’t figure out how President, of whom I have the greatest smokers who make less than $250,000 a to pay your taxes accurately or if you admiration—he is a great success year. That was a tax increase. That can’t hire the right person to get your story—what I hear and what I see tend was in opposition to what the Presi- taxes done properly, then you’re prob- to be two different things. There has dent said he would do. There are other ably disqualified for being a secretary- been some good work done by Phil examples. level person in this United States Gov- Kerpen of the Americans for Pros- We were encouraged by the President ernment’’? It is so disappointing. It is perity. I appreciate the work that he to pass in this body legislation free of so disappointing. has done. I want to touch on a few earmarks. We were promised earmark We have great hurdles, great oppor- points that I have great concern about. reform. The statement on earmarks tunities ahead of us. There is probably We were promised by this adminis- that came out on March 10: ‘‘The sys- nothing stronger in this country and tration and by the Speaker of the tem is broken. We can no longer accept more fundamental to what we should House, Mr. Speaker, that we would a process that doles out earmarks be doing in this government than our have this sunlight before signing based on a Member of Congress’ senior- national security. I am joined today by things. In this body right here, the ity rather than the merit of the somebody who is passionate about na- House Republicans and Democrats project. We can no longer accept an tional defense, about the great work unanimously passed a resolution that earmarks process that has become so that men and women are doing all said we would have 48 hours to review complicated to navigate that a munici- across the world to help us, to protect a bill before we would sign it. Yet, pality or nonprofit group has to hire us. shortly thereafter, the single largest high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it, and During my campaign, I had an oppor- spending bill in the history of the we can no longer accept an earmarks tunity to meet a number of soldiers United States passed out of the Rules process in which many of the projects who did not come home to this same Committee. It was just around mid- being funded fail to address the real kind of welcoming that they thought night when we got the final copy of the needs of our country.’’ they would. They were injured. They bill, the so-called ‘‘stimulus bill.’’ Just When the President addressed the came back to families who were so con- over 13 hours later, we had to vote on joint session of Congress, I was sitting cerned because the breadwinners in it. That is absolutely the wrong direc- right there in the seventh row. The their families could no longer win the tion. President said he wanted no earmarks. bread. These were brave men and

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