[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 96 (Friday, July 17, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1346]
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                  THE MASSACRE OF THE E-RATE CONTINUES

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                          HON. MAJOR R. OWENS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 17, 1998

  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the massacre of the infant E-Rate continues. 
Certain greedy corporations have chose to persecute and betray the 
children of America by denying them vital access to education 
technology in their schools and libraries. After the Telecommunications 
Act of 1996 enriched these giant corporations by removing certain 
regulations and allowing an unprecedented increase in their profits, 
MCI and others have chose to renege on the deal. The telecommunications 
corporations gave their word that they would support an earmarking of a 
portion of the Universal Access Fund just for Schools and Libraries. 
Now corporations and misguided political leaders have forced the 
Federal Communications Commission to cut the original funding goal by 
fifty per cent. On behalf of the 30,000 schools and libraries that 
applied for funding, and all of the children of America we demand that 
full funding for the E-Rate be restored immediately. The children of 
America have a message for corporations like MCI:

                           THE E-RATE KILLER

     MCI
     Wants E-Rate to die
     Children cry
     Big shots lie
     Pigs kidnap the sky
     MCI
     Wants E-Rate to die
     Deadbeat dinosaur
     Monster Corporate Idiots
     MCI
     Never shy
     Greedy grinch
     Stealing all the pie
     MCI
     With justice no civil tie
     MCI
     Filthy sty
     In the star spangled eye
     MCI
     Wants E-Rate to die
     MCI
     Makes children cry.

     

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