[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPUDIATION OF EXTREMIST CUTS IN EDUCATION

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr Speaker, the other body yesterday by a vote of 86 to 14 
handed out a repudiation of the extremist cuts in education that have 
been promoted by the Republicans in this House. Many schools are only a 
few weeks from notifying teachers that they will not be rehired next 
year. Local and State governments will have to eliminate needed 
education programs, or they are going to have to raise the property 
taxes on people who are already overtaxed, who are business owners or 
homeowners.
  The 103d Congress was the education Congress. It passed Goals 2000, 
national service, school-to-work funding for students who are not going 
to college but need to be headed into a job. The 104th Congress now 
wants to cut those programs, along with title I, summer youth jobs, 
dislocated workers, Head Start, drug-free schools. It was the robber 
barons of the 1800's that did not want to fund education for the 
children of their workers, so the public funded education. Now the new 
robber barons of this generation want to take the public investment out 
of public schools. We should not let them.

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