House Proceeding 06-15-09 on Jun 15th, 2009 :: 1:56:30 to 2:02:55
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Steven R. Rothman: experienced safely. to support h.r. 729 and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from washington reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from the northern mariana islands. mr. sablan: mr. speaker, i am pleased to recognize the gentleman from new jersey, mr. rothman, for eight minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Speech By: Steven R. Rothman

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Steven R. Rothman: gentleman from new jersey, mr. minutes. mr. rothman: thauk, mr. speaker. i thank -- thank you, mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman for the time. mr. speaker, today we consider legislation that is an important step in protecting our young people as they come to explore this amazing world that we live in. first, i want to take time to thank my friend, the education

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Steven R. Rothman: and labor chairman, george miller, earlier this year chairman miller took the time from his schedule to meet with phylicia moore's parents, lola and dougs moore, and if i lessia's brother, christopher. chairman miller heard their heartbreaking the legislation we have before us today is a testament to his

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Steven R. Rothman: leadership and his christmas -- compassion. i also want to acknowledge the role played by secretary of education, arne duncan, he also personally met with the moores and he and his staff suggested to the bill. i'm deeply grateful tortoise -- for his personal involvement. i would also like thank

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Steven R. Rothman: ranking member, conman mckeon, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, bipartisan support of this very important legislation. i'd also like to recognize and express my gratitude for the endorsements of the national parent-teacher association, the national education association

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Steven R. Rothman: and the national school boards association for this important bill. phylicia's law bears the name of a young woman from my district who was taken from us much too soon. phylicia moore was an 18-year-old high school student from new jersey who died in april, 2007, while on a

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Steven R. Rothman: school-sponsored trip to ghana. today, however, is not about the past. we're here to talk about the future. and what we can do to help ensure that no more parents endure what douglas and lola moore have gone through. it is the culmination of the

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Steven R. Rothman: to their daughter and her memory and their desire that no other parent suffer as they have that brings us to this ment on the floor of the united states house of representatives. as a myself, when i send my children -- as a parent myself, when i send my children to school, i expect them to be safe. i expect them to be just a

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Steven R. Rothman: when the school takes them on a field trip off school premises. public school districts are now required to have safety plans and security procedures in place for the physical campus of their schools. however, there are no such requirements when schools take students off campus for field

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Steven R. Rothman: trips or for any other reason. phylicia's law will fix this dangerous phylicia's law will require school districts to develop a a safety policy for overnight school trips. however the bill as written still gives individual schools the leeway to determine their own plans and procedure which parents will then be able to

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Steven R. Rothman: review before the parents decide if the school district has the right security plan for their child, sufficient to allow a parent in good conscience to let their child take this off-campus school trip. given that schools already know

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Steven R. Rothman: thousand devise their plans for on-campus events, this new requirement for plans for off-campus events should not be overly burdensome. on t contrary, i think it should be welcome as a plan and set of procedures to to help protect everyone on the trip. with plans and procedures in

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Steven R. Rothman: place, there will be a blueprint for chaperons, fir trip leaders, for students and for parents. all of whom will want to know whatndividual roles and responsibilities there are on this trip and what will happen should tragedy strike. we need phylicia's law to not

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Steven R. Rothman: only keep children safe but help schools continue to offer important off-campus learning activities. off-campus school trips are an important part of the education am experience of our nion's students. 've year, millions of our young people enjoy these trips. they provide students with invaluable learning

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Steven R. Rothman: opportunities outside the classroom. keeping our students safe is paramount, but we also need to continue to provide these essential offcampus educational experiences. phylicia moore was in ghana on a good will trip.

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Steven R. Rothman: she was there to help others. she was a good, caring person. she was brave. she was filled with light. when speaking with parents, douglas and lola moore, it is easy to see how loved, how much loved phylicia

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Steven R. Rothman: was. douglas and lola's love helped make phylicia the wonderful young woman she had become. it is with a heavy heart i stand here today because nothing will bring this wonderful young woman back. uh be -- but i commend phylicia's parents, douglas and

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Steven R. Rothman: lola moore, for coming to me about phylicia's law, caring about other parents and children. i hope we get phylicia's law passed for them, for their daughter, and to make sure that parents across the country never have to face the pain the moores will continue to live with. i urge my colleagues to stand

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Steven R. Rothman: up for students and parents across this country by supporting this bill. i yield back.