[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]


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                 REPUBLICANS GET AN ``F'' FOR EDUCATION

  (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, we all get the opportunities as Members of 
Congress to get a little booklet called: How Our Laws Are Made. My 
suggestion is to my Republican colleagues that they save their copies 
and reread this document because it says the fact that a proposal 
cannot become law without consideration and approval by both Houses of 
Congress is an outstanding virtue of our legislative system.
  The fact of the matter is that last January the President laid out an 
education proposal. He said: Let us reduce class sizes, let us increase 
the number of teachers, let us modernize our schools for our children, 
let us give them every single opportunity that they need in order that 
they might succeed in a very, very competitive world.
  My suggestion to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle is to 
stop holding up this budget process over the funding of America's 
public schools.
  The very fact of the matter is they get an F for education.
  Let us focus our time and our attention in the remaining days that we 
have here to reduce class size, modernize our schools, increase the 
numbers of teachers in our classrooms for the benefit of our children.

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