[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7929]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               EDUCATION

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I recently had the pleasure of hosting the 
Secretary of Education, Mr. Richard Riley, in my hometown of Anaheim 
over the district recess. During that town hall meeting, the Secretary 
fielded questions from about 200 parents and educators about what we 
could do to prepare our children for the future. They wanted to know 
what Congress was doing about education, about relieving the 
overcrowding that is happening back at home and about preventing the 
growing incidence of violence among our youth.
  While the leadership of this House seems more concerned with the 
President's private life, I can tell my colleagues that people back 
home want to know what is going on with education. When I go back home 
to Orange County on my weekends, they ask me, not about the Starr 
report, they instead want to know what Congress is doing to protect the 
future of Social Security and what they are doing to protect the future 
of our children. Democrats and the President have an agenda that 
addresses these issues, and I have introduced my own proposal to 
encourage more school construction so we can have a smaller ratio of 
children in the classroom. We have to do that.
  Get away from this report. Work on education.

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