[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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      KEEP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF PRIVATE AND HOME SCHOOLS

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to problems, the Federal 
Government has a full plate.
  Foreign policy crises; health care; a massive budget deficit.
  What the Federal Government does not need is more problems, and it 
certainly doesn't need to poke its rather large nose into the affairs 
of our country's private schools or into the affairs of parents who 
choose to educate their children at home.
  Mr. Speaker, it may not be the intent of H.R. 6 to intrude into 
private or home schools, but we need to make certain this does not 
happen.
  I strongly support Mr. Armey's amendment to H.R. 6.
  We need to make crystal clear that the Federal Government has no 
business interfering with private or home schools.
  Given the conditions in some of our country's public schools, the 
bureaucrats at the Department of Education surely have enough to worry 
about without poking their collective nose where it is not needed and 
does not belong.

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