[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19456-19457]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



         LET US PASS H.R. 1660, A SCHOOL MODERNIZATION PROGRAM

  (Mr. McNULTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McNULTY. Mr. Speaker, several years ago we seemed to realize that 
classrooms around this country were overcrowded, and we decided that we 
needed smaller class sizes. The Democrats proposed funding for 100,000 
new teachers to go out all across the country to teach our children.
  After much wrangling, and in a rare moment of bipartisanship, we 
finally passed the funding to provide for those

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new teachers. Now we have the first wave of them, tens of thousands of 
new teachers going out across the country. Guess what, there is no 
place for them to go. There are no classrooms for them to teach.
  Now we have proposed, on the Democratic side, something to correct 
that situation, a school modernization program, so that the classrooms 
are available for all these new teachers. Mr. Speaker, I do not want 
these new teachers to be instructing our children in hallways, broom 
closets, and trailers. Let us pass H.R. 1660.

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