[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 146 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          MORE TEACHERS MEANS A BETTER EDUCATION FOR OUR KIDS

  (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, today this do-nothing Congress will try to 
buy some time to pass a budget that they had all year long to complete. 
The last few days, the Republican leadership has steadfastly refused to 
reduce the size of our classrooms by giving local schools, local 
authority the funding that they need to hire 100,000 new teachers. They 
call it federal intrusion, but I tell my colleagues 2 years ago 
Republicans said that the Cops program was federal intrusion on the 
local police departments, but when we put 100,000 more cops on the 
street, we made dangerous neighborhoods safe again. We gave police 
departments, local police departments, targeted resources so that they 
could make local decisions, and it worked. Now what we need to do is to 
do the same thing, to help our schools in the same way.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to put 100,000 teachers in America's classrooms. 
We need to reduce the size, give our kids the attention that they need, 
bring greater discipline to our classrooms and allow our kids to 
succeed. Just as more cops has meant more safety for our families, more 
teachers means a better education for our kids.

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