[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 46 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H1621-H1622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        DEVELOPING FERTILE MINDS

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, just a month ago on the front page of Time 
magazine, we have a cover story talking about our children in this 
country and new, brandnew research coming out how a child's brain 
develops fertile minds. We find that researchers across our great 
country are saying that the best time to learn a new language, to learn 
new things in our educational progress as people, might be between 0 
and 5. That is what our researchers and

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our parents and our educators are telling us.
  At the White House today the President and the First Lady are 
convening a session on what we do and how we help our families get this 
information out there even more. But here in the House of 
Representatives, yesterday in our Committee on Appropriations, the 
Republicans proposed to slash WIC programs, which are for education and 
nutrition and development for our children and our families. What 
better contrast between the White House and our House of 
Representatives.
  Let us invest in our children.

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