[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 34 (Thursday, March 16, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H1065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET AND EDUCATION CUTS

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, at the beginning of the 21st 
century, America stands as the greatest economic and military power in 
the history of the world. We have been blessed with tremendous 
resources, wonderful natural resources. But the most precious of all of 
our resources is the human potential of America's workforce.
  But we have to sustain the investment in that potential. Today, half 
of our students will not graduate from high school. And here we have a 
budget proposed by the President that has some of the deepest, most 
dangerous cuts ever proposed, eliminating vocational education, 
eliminating 36 other programs designed to help teachers and students, 
cutting billions of dollars from college student loan programs.
  In fact, 3.7 million children will not even get the reading and math 
help they were promised under the Leave No Child Behind Act. This is 
not going to sustain our economic power, Madam Speaker. It undermines 
our economic strength, and, in fact, it is bound to shortchange our 
children's future.

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