[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24293]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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            REPUBLICANS STAND FOR LOCAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House


for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, we should rejoice in our constitutional 
republic when there are differences of opinion. And I welcome the 
comments from my friend the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen). Although 
I think that harsh political attacks, even taking a look at where we 
are on the calendar, may be somewhat out of place here.
  Attacking prosperity is curious. Attacking local control of public 
education is even more curious. Mr. Speaker, ``curiouser and 
curiouser'' said Alice through the looking glass.
  The fact is we stand for local control, putting parents in charge of 
education. And, yes, we invite our friends to put people in front of 
politics and join with us in a bipartisan way to make sure there is 
full health care deductibility, to make sure that there are solutions 
not decreed by Washington bureaucrats but by the people at home and the 
business owners and parents in the home and teachers in the classroom.
  That is where our strength remains, not in the bureaucracies of 
Washington, D.C.

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