[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 10, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               EDUCATION

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, if polled my guess is that each and every 
Member of this body, regardless of their political philosophy or party 
affiliation, will claim to be deeply concerned about education. Well, 
the President's latest national education standards proposal shows that 
my liberal colleagues care about education all right, the Department of 
Education.
  As though the current 760 Federal education programs are not enough, 
they want to spend millions more in taxpayer dollars to create yet 
another bureaucratic program to impose the will of Washington on each 
and every school district in America. I would urge my liberal 
colleagues to join those of us who are fighting to send the Federal 
funding where it will have the greatest effect, to the teachers and 
students and classrooms of this country.
  Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. Education dollars should be spent 
educating our children, not lining the pockets of Federal bureaucrats.

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