[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4133-H4134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HEAD START WORKS IN ARIZONA

  (Mr. KOLBE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in a bipartisan way to speak 
about a program that I think is widely applauded by most people in this 
House, and that is Head Start. It is a program that has certainly 
worked well in my district. I think it has worked well across the 
country, and it has worked well because it does good things and it has 
a performance record that we can all talk about. It is a program that 
is designed to provide nutrition, health screening and treatment, 
education, and social services to preschool-aged children and to their 
parents, and it has contributed greatly to

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our efforts to help those kids do better as they get older and to help 
to win the war against poverty in this country.
  In my community of Tucson, AZ, 70 percent of the children served by 
Head Start are bilingual, and through this program, these children 
learn English better so that they can go to kindergarten with a better 
knowledge to start out of their schooling on the right footing, an that 
helps them stay in school. That helps everyone, the kids, their 
parents, and the community.
  Mr. Speaker, for years Head Start has enjoyed strong bipartisan 
support, and in these austere budgetary times, that support has 
continued. I urge my colleagues to continue to provide adequate 
funding.

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