House debate: ‘We’re all falling for it,’ ‘Proud to be one of the 9,’ ‘This is about children’
From today’s House debate on HB 1, the child support enforcement bill:
House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, said, “I want to thank the nine that stood up and said ‘no.’ Quite frankly, everyone that’s talked today says that we have a better deal because those guys stood up and said no. … If it were me, I’d send the bill for the special session to the Department of Health & Welfare, but that’s me.” He said, “We’re all falling for it. This bill is going to pass,” and asked, “Do you think it’s smart that we are turning over information on Idaho citizens to the EU? Do you think that could be good? … The ministry of foreign affairs of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands?” Moyle compared the bill to tainted milk, and said, “Our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.”
“I’m not an attorney, I’m a dirt farmer, I don’t know all the answers,” Moyle said. “But I don’t have a comfort level with this, and I ain’t drinking the tainted milk.”
Rep. Kathy Sims, R-Coeur d’Alene, said, “I’m one of the original nine, and I’m very, very proud to be one. And I’m going to vote the same way again. … This is not so much … about our sovereignty. This is our willingness to sell it.”
Rep. John McCrostie, D-Boise, said the bill isn’t about papier-mache horses, gangsters or tainted milk. “This is about children who need child support so that they can go on and have happy, productive lives.”
Rep. Rich Wills, R-Glenns Ferry, said, “Health & Welfare did answer almost every question before we were out of session, but some of us weren’t listening.”
