[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STUDENT ASSISTANCE

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I want to follow my Texas 
colleague, in fact my neighbor in the Houston area, and say the House 
is spending more time today on this horse bill than we are on homeland 
security, and we need to deal with that. We need to protect our 
borders, ports and airports.
  If you don't like the bill, I am a co-sponsor of it, you can just 
vote ``nay.''
  Mr. Speaker, the reason I am here today is because I recently learned 
that the U.S. Department of Education failed to award the LULAC 
National Education Service Centers a grant under the Talent Search 
Program.
  The LULAC Talent Search program has been one of the largest talent 
search grantees since it was first awarded in 1979. This program serves 
over 12,000 students in some of the country's most disadvantaged areas. 
These cuts will severely impact the Hispanic community that I 
represent.
  In my Houston area, the local LULAC Council 402 has been an integral 
part of serving students in our area for years. Just last year, LULAC 
Council 402 served students in our area and they raised $32,000 
separately to match the Federal funds. This program nationwide serves 
thousands and serves our Nation, and now the Department of Education 
has decided to turn out the lights on these centers. I hope someone in 
the Department of Education is listening.

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