[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10670]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           FOCUS ON EDUCATION

  (Ms. STABENOW asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. STABENOW. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues in 
these final days to focus our attention on education. We have asked 
that we spend one day focused on the future of our country, on 
education for our children, and that has yet to happen.
  Mr. Speaker, I know in Michigan, in my State, we have been working in 
volunteer efforts to wire schools with business-labor community groups 
to bring technology so that our children are prepared for the future. 
But this is a partnership that every level of government, as well as 
the private sector, must be involved in if our children are going to be 
prepared.
  In too many schools in my district there is more computer power in 
the average gas station than the average classroom, and that is just 
not good enough.
  We have an opportunity in this budget at this time to make a 
commitment in partnership with our local communities, with the private 
sector, with our States, to make sure that our children have the 
resources and have the kinds of equipment that they need so they can be 
prepared for the jobs of the future.

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