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Boy Scout Connection in Congress?

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    Staggering number of lawmakers have scouting backgrounds

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-- comes down upon them.

Yeah yeah.

Virginia's comes out then seven and eight -- fun and learning and teaching in have a bag.

I have a good about the -- -- these little and say when they grow up they'd like to be engineers lawyers and inventors.

Like you and invent.

Flying harbor but -- sex do you have any desire to be a politician.

-- the most senior Republican in this and it wasn't focused on politics either as a boy scout during World War II.

But becoming an eagle scout and earning merit badges for everything from public speaking to scholarship so -- Richard Lugar.

He has many scouting mementos hanging in his senate office.

I believe that's the scouting does.

Bring about a degree of maturity.

Maybe heightening of ambition and I'm very proud of having been a boy -- Senator Lugar is said to be one of just 31 eagle scouts we're now members of the 112 congress but of the more than 500 lawmakers here.

A staggering 206.

Of them.

Have a connection to scouting.

Texas congressman Pete Sessions says the lessons that he has father and it's his son dollar and his Boy Scouts and eagle scouts.

Provide a great basis for a future lawmaker.

I think scouting builds that in within the last that is about public service and commitment to our country.

Ohio's Sherrod brown first -- astronaut John Glenn is an eagle scout and then again forty years later when he -- became a member of the senate.

That's a good tradition our country it's endured for a hundred years because.

It teaches discipline.

And it's all about us all the way it's about service.

And Georgia's Sanford bishop says being in eagle scout not only inspired him to go into public service.

He says it's earned him votes to.

I was running in a district that was.

Had.

Large number of non African Americans one of the members came to me after the dispute since if you an eagle scout you -- to -- -- good man and that's why I voted for you.

Given the road connecting scouting -- congress doesn't make you wonder if any of these young scouts.

Will one day trade in the scouting motto an oath of office.

When my honor -- will do my best I do my duty to god and god in my country to help other people and -- -- -- to keep myself.

Physically strong mentally awake and morally straight on Capitol Hill Jennifer Davis.

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