the people i looked up to more than anybody, one congressman henry hyde and former congressman dan coates both supported parental leave. the words of henry hyde during the debate on family leave and it was not paid family leave. he reminded us that, quote, the family supplies the moral glue that holds society together and it is an essential institution that stands between us and social disintegration. and so, one the military gets six weeks. two, that bonding process is when that baby comes out, you want the mother to be there. it is critically important. and thirdly, one of the giants from the beginning in this hall that ever served, congressman henry hyde who led the most passionate case on why the family leave should have been passed years ago. i rise in support of the bill and i thank the gentleman for yielding me time. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas to close. mr. sessions: i appreciate the gentleman from virginia not only for coming to the floor and the gentleman from california for allowing me an add

mine when i was with the children and family select committee back in the 1980's, my then boss dan coates was one of the members that supported the family medical leave bill which i didn't degree with. he told me i could sit in on all the meetings, people said it will never be paid, this is just to cover people for unpaid. you are a paranoid conservative because you hear talk about becoming paid. we watched this in the government arena and my daughter just had our second grandchild. she is a school teacher. the struggle was how was she going to deal with the time she was going to take off, was it going to be paid, during the school year, what happens when you have grants and she has two little kids, how do you this. what's fair? my oldest son and his wife both work in the government. they would love to have paid medical leave, but there are some problems here. it's one of the most controversial problems is what to do with the husband and should he be able to get time off during -- when a baby is born, forget all the medical questions. what do we do with air traffic controllers? what do we