[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SHAME ON THE REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, the Republican majority says there are two 
reasons we cannot approve the President's program for local education, 
for teachers, for smaller class size and school improvements.
  One, they say there is no time. Well, the President made the proposal 
in January. Since then, this Congress has worked 110 days here in 
Washington, D.C. Not bad for a $137,000-a-year salary. But the average 
American, at a $30,000-a-year salary, has worked 201 days, while these 
clowns have only worked 110. And they say there is no time to do the 
people's business.
  Then they say there is no money. There is no money for kids, for 
education, for schools. Yet on the front page of the Washington Post, 
they document more than $50 million stuffed in the DOD bill with no 
consideration, including a quarter of a million dollars for 
pharmacokinetics research. That is the study of the use of stay-alert 
chewing gum, which is manufactured in the hometown of one member of 
that committee. One quarter of one million dollars will be spent, but 
there is no money for teachers, no money for kids, no money for school.
  Shame on the Republicans.

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