gary bower, president of american values and a santorum story. u don't need me to lecture, but i want to start with you, gary, because i don't understand why your guy rick santorum making false charges with national health care mandates regarding obama care and romney care, which has been proven false, where is the economic growth message? where is the tax cut message? where is the energy and gasoline prices message? you are wasting variable -- valuable time, gary. >> well, look, larry. i think that senator santorum has a pretty good tax plan. in fact, i would argue it's better and more reagan-like than the one that governor romney has, but in all of these candidates they have gone after each other during this process. i would have felt a lot better just like you just like they run their negative ads attacking barack obama since there's so much to talk about. i certainly wouldn't pin it on santorum as being the guy that started out negative. we'll see what governor pawlenty says about that. while i agree with you that we ought to be taking on pres

report developed by an interagency working group on the family shared by undersecretary of education gary bower. entitled "the family" preserving america's future, and released in november 1986, the document blasted the abrasive experiments of two liberal decades, such as day care, population control. no-fault divorce, sex education and values clarification in the schools. in their place, the report affirmed what it called homed truths. home truths. intact, families are good. families who choose to have children are making a desirable decision. mothers and father whose then decide to spend a good deal of time raising those children it doing a good thing for those children. public policy and the culture in general must support and reaffirm these decisions. president reagan signed executive order 12606 on september 2, consequence of th bower report, this order required federal agencies to develop family impact statements when crafting and implementing regulations and policies. specific criteria included, does this action by government strengthen or erode the stability of the family and particular