[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 143 (Sunday, October 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                LET US MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN KIDS' LIVES

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, this is absurd. Republicans taking credit 
for improving education is like saying that Jerry Springer is in the 
business of improving television. It really is quite extraordinary. My 
Republican colleagues say that the President wants to shut the 
government down. Friends, American public, understand: This government 
is shut down. Let me tell you what the Republican-controlled majority 
has not been doing in the last 2 years of the 105th Congress. No 
budget. No budget. No appropriations bills. No managed care reform. No 
campaign finance reform legislation. No tobacco legislation to help to 
save your kids. No education program. They say, ``Let's raid Social 
Security to pay for other things in this budget.''
  Let me just say this to you, that yes, what we need to focus on in 
these last remaining hours of this Congress is our kids' education. Let 
us in fact reduce class size. Let us get 100,000 more teachers. Let us 
make a difference in our kids' lives.

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