[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            VOTING VALUES MORE IMPORTANT THAN TALKING VALUES

  (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, the conventional wisdom is that 
Democrats do not talk about values, and so I guess the assumption is we 
do not have values. Well, maybe we have not talked about values because 
we felt we were voting our values, and we felt that voting our values 
was a whole lot more relevant than talking values.

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  What do I mean by that? I think the value of education is one of the 
most fundamental values there is to every American family. Any American 
family who gets their child into the schools that they want to go in 
and see them go forward, it is like winning the lottery. It is better 
than winning the lottery, because you are what your children become.
  Yet the people on the other side who love to talk values are gutting 
this educational value. They are gutting it by cutting $3.3 billion out 
of educational funding, going right at that basic math skills, right at 
basic reading skills and at drug-free schools. Those are the core of 
how we build a good public school system. They would rather build B-2 
bombers.
  Mrs. Speaker, something is wrong.

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