[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
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                      CELEBRATION FOR THE GI BILL

  (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana 
[Mr. Buyer].
  Mr. BUYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me.
  Mr. Speaker, I think the amendment of the gentleman from Mississippi 
[Mr. Montgomery] tried to in fact correct what occurred, but I think 
that we have to strike the employer mandate. I will have offering that 
amendment, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Filner], the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Gene Green], and also the 
gentleman from Florida [Mr. Bilirakis] mentioned the 50th anniversary 
of the GI bill. It is today, June 22, that President Roosevelt, at the 
White House, signed this bill that changed America. It gave the 
opportunity for middle-class, young veterans to get a college 
education, people who would have never gotten anything but a high 
school education. It gave the veterans the opportunity to buy a home. I 
bought a home under the GI bill, and I still live there in that home in 
Meridian MS.
  It is a great day, Mr. Speaker, and President Clinton and Secretary 
Brown will be downtown today at 1 o'clock in front of the Veterans 
Department having the celebration on the GI bill.

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