[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10508]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                     EDUCATION IS A FEDERAL PROBLEM

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, this is one issue that lends itself to true 
bipartisanship. I think President Bush, when he was campaigning, 
emphasized why we should not leave any child behind. That is not merely 
a campaign slogan. If America is just to keep up, we are going to have 
to invest in our young people to make certain that we can keep up with 
foreign technology.
  We hope that we will continue to grow and have economic growth in 
this country, and yet we find that our high-tech people are forced to 
import labor into this country. We hear pleas every day from the 
medical industry, from the State Department, how important it is for us 
to train people for these important jobs, and yet we find that if they 
are not ready to get a decent public school education, how in God's 
name are they going to be ready for higher education and high tech?
  There are a lot of people that do not believe education is a Federal 
problem; but the President knows, as do most Americans.

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