[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     EDUCATION IS AMERICA'S FUTURE

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, in school districts across the Nation, 
teachers are being laid off, students face classrooms that will be even 
more crowded, needed equipment and supplies cannot be purchased, and 
parents are being told that they can no longer depend on after school 
programs.
  We talk about restoring families and helping our young people. Yet, 
Members of this House seem ready to abandon education by making the 
largest cuts in America's history.
  Now those who want to make these unprecedented cuts will argue that 
we are spending too much on education. To them, I would say, ``how 
quickly we forget.''
  How quickly we forget that when America led the world in educational 
achievement, for every $10 the Government spent, $1 went for education.
  Today, however, for every $10 the Government spends, only ten cents--
one thin dime--goes for education.
  We must restore these cuts, and they are cuts. We must invest in 
America's families, America's children, and America's future workers.

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