[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         OUR CHILDREN MUST GET THE BEST EDUCATION IN THE WORLD

  (Ms. LOFGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LOFGREN. Mr. Speaker, in l953, as sort of the cutting edge of the 
baby boomers, I started kindergarten, and as the children of the World 
War II heroes entered school, what happened? All over the country they 
built enough schools and they made sure there were enough textbooks so 
that my generation could have a great education and have a future.
  Turn the clock forward to 1998, and we have the biggest group of 
kindergartners that we have had since the baby boomers, and let us 
contrast what the grown ups are doing this time. We have children going 
to school in trailers, we have children going to school in utility 
closets. I would hope, and we spent so much time in this Congress on 
scandal and investigation and the like that, please, let us make sure 
that before we go home we do something that will really matter for the 
future of this country, that we put our children first, and we put our 
money where our mouth is, that we understand that the most important 
thing for the future of our country is that our children get the best 
education in the world.

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