[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4536]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          DO NOT CUT EDUCATION

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, last year our Republican colleagues sought 
to place a $5,000 burden on young people who want a 4-year college 
education. At the same time, they came along and proposed to give 
thousands of our youngest Americans a wrong start instead of a head 
start by defunding much of the program needed for early childhood 
education.
  Fortunately, Americans spoke out against this extremism. In the early 
part of this year, our Republican colleagues yielded and we got an 
appropriations process approved for this year that protects education 
and the hopes and dreams of so many American families. But hardly had 
that victory been won than Sunday on television we had the gentleman 
from Texas [Mr. Armey], the majority leader, saying that he was willing 
to fund a tax break in order to do that through cuts in education.
  Mr. Speaker, education is not the place to cut. Though our Republican 
colleagues suffered from shutdown fever last year and this year they 
are having sinking spells that the American people understand their 
agenda, please do not provide this gimmick that you feel you need in 
order to get a rise in the polls. Do not fund it by cutting education.

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