[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 157 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11716]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION FOR OUR CHILDREN

  (Mr. WU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WU. Mr. Speaker, I was at home at the Verboort Sausage Festival 
this past weekend. It is a wonderful community event. I had the 
privilege of sitting next to Don and Lois Tayler. Lois Tayler's 
grandfather owned 100 acres on part of which Findley Elementary School 
now sits. As Oregon pioneers, the Findleys understood the value of 
education. And Don and Lois, who are schoolteachers now, know that that 
school has 900 kids in it, but it was built for 700.
  This Congress has the ability to help with that situation, with 
school modernization and class size reduction, and we should not go 
home until we get those jobs done to keep faith with people like the 
Findleys, like the Taylers, and other Oregonians who made investments 
in their day for their children. We should be making similar 
investments in our day for our children.

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