[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 20 (Wednesday, March 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H761]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SUPPORT THE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE BILL

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, it is appropriate this morning 
that we had in our chamber students from El Paso, Texas, the 
Lamplighters, formed from Henderson Middle School, the constituents of 
my colleague from Texas, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes), because 
today is an important day for Americans. We heard just recently a 
disturbing study about the imbalance of the performance of our students 
in America in math and science. Well, today we stand on the side of our 
students and on the side of learning by offering to the American people 
a school infrastructure bill that will begin to go throughout this 
Nation and fix the leaking roofs, the falling roofs, the expanded 
crowdedness that we have in our school districts across the Nation.
  The school infrastructure bill that the Democrats will be offering 
today will say once and for all that we want our children in America to 
learn in safe and secure conditions. Then we will add another 100,000 
teachers to our communities, 100,000 trained individuals committed to 
teaching our children, committed to preparing them for the 21st 
century.
  I ask my colleagues in this body to support this legislation and 
stand on the side of our children.

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