[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 6, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     WE CANNOT SHORTCHANGE OUR CHILDREN BY MAKING CUTS IN EDUCATION

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I believe that when someone shows you 
their leader, they are showing you a part of their soul. I must say, 
our soul around here is pretty sick. I am one of the few people who 
voted against the last continuing resolution because it was a 20 
percent cut from education.
  In my district in Denver, they were laying off Head Start workers 
because of this cut. Can you imagine our doing that to 3-year-olds, 4-
year-olds, and 5-year-olds? That is wrong. What kind of a soul does it 
take to do that? I certainly hope that a lot of us wake up and find out 
that when we continue to have this little window to our soul by how we 
vote, people are going to get more and more alienated by what is going 
on in this town.
  If we do not care about our children, if we do not prepare for our 
future, this country is really on the wrong course. We must put our 
children first, We cannot shortchange them on education.

                          ____________________