JEFF BINGAMAN
June 20, 1990, page S8298: I cannot support an effort to begin writing exceptions into the first amendment of our Constitution. The Supreme Court has said the first amendment protects the right of free speech, no matter how unpopular or offensive that speech is.

I am not willing to amend the Constitution to permit States and the Federal Government to restrict the expression of those views.
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It does not strengthen us as a nation to begin, by constitutional amendment, to restrict the right of political expression. It does not protect our Nation to diminish the very liberties which have made us the envy of all mankind.

Warren S. Apel