[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 80 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPPORT EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

  (Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOB SCHAFFER of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, yesterday President 
Clinton, in a letter to Speaker Gingrich, wrote that the legislation 
creating education savings accounts, which we will consider today, 
would weaken public education and shortchange our children. That charge 
is preposterous.
  I would like one Democrat to explain why giving parents more control 
and more power over their children's education would not be good for 
their children. I would like one Democrat on the other side to explain 
how more competition would result in worse schools. I would like one 
Democrat to look in the eyes of children in dangerous or dysfunctional 
schools and explain why they would want to keep them there. I would 
like one Democrat to explain why they would sell out American children, 
once again, to the education special interests who block every real 
reform that comes to this body, and who are the ones who are 
shortchanging our children.
  Today, let us vote for the children. Let us support education savings 
accounts.

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