Healthy Marriage Hearings

According to The Associated Press, a Health subcommittee will discuss "Healthy Marriage: What is it and why should we promote it?" According to a GOP memo obtained by The Associated Press, the hearings (a total of four) will represent a "full-court push to educate the public on the importance of marriage."

"All of this could be very good for America to reacquaint itself with the importance of marriage as an institution for our culture and the danger we face as we move away from them," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who will preside over the first hearing.

People who will testify on April 28, 2004, include Wade Horn, Gov Frank Keating, Stan Weed and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.

On May 5, 2004, the Finance subcommittee will have a discussion on "The Benefits of Healthy Marriage."

May 13, 2004, the Commerce subcommittee, will discuss "What social science can tell us about marriage, divorce and children." The fourth hearing, to be held by the Judiciary Committee, is not yet scheduled.

You can listen to the hearings on CSPAN on the Internet. The hearing is Number SD-430.