Rick Lazio on Families & Children Former Republican/Conservative Representative (NY-2)

Require companies to allow unpaid family leave

Forgive college debt to encourage more day-care workers

Encourage-not require-notifying parents for contraceptives

Voting record on family issues:
• Voted AGAINST requiring counselors to notify parents or to have written parental consent when a minor enters a family planning clinic to obtain contraceptives. (HR.4274, 10/8/99)
• Voted YES to requiring counselors to encourage family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services. (HR.2264, 9/9/97)
• Voted YES to requiring large employers to provide family and medical leave. (HR.1, 2/3/93)

Blame Hollywood; maybe post Ten Commandments

Voting record on family issues:
• Voted YES to expressing Congress’ displeasure with the Entertainment Industry over their use of violence in their products. (HR.1501, 6/17/99)
• Vote NO to allowing States to post a copy of The Ten Commandments in any State run facility. (HR.1501, 6/17/99)
• Voted YES on allowing the public display of the Ten Commandments, including in government offices and courthouses. (H.Con.Res.3)

Religious memorials OK; Ten Commandments sometimes OK

Voting record on juvenile crime issues:
• Voted YES to authorizing religious language to be used in memorials on public grounds that honor a person killed on a public school campus. (HR.1501, 6/16/99)
• Vote NO to allowing States to post a copy of The Ten Commandments in any State run facility. (HR.1501, 6/17/99)
• Voted YES on allowing the public display of the Ten Commandments, including in government offices and courthouses. (H.Con.Res.31, 3/5/97)

Use tax code to reinforce families.

[As part of the Contract with America, within 100 days we pledge to bring to the House Floor the following bill]:

The Families Reinforcement Act:
Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children’s education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society.