would one solution just be to give it all to the Department of Labor?

We need to do a better job of teaching just what those values are.

We hope we can play a role in taking all the various programs... back in its rightful place in our curriculum.

The accomplishment is that we have taken all that variety and diversity and turned it into one country, and we do not talk about that.

In my, as we call it in the Senate, so-called maiden address, I spoke on this subject, and I said I thought we had spent over the last 30 or 40 years too much time, relatively, on diversity, multiculturalism, and bilingualism and too…

It is time to put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools.

Too many of our children do not know what makes America exceptional.

The hearing today will address the intersection of two concerns which are extremely important to the future of our country: the education of our children and the principles that unite us as Americans.

Children usually do not learn because they are not being taught, and so the focus today is to put an increased focus on the teaching of American history and civics.

I want to especially acknowledge the presence of Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

I hope you don't come to the same end he did.

This hearing is specifically on the subject of legislation which I introduced with 19 cosponsors.

the legislation I propose today will help our schools do what they were established to do in the first place.

It is time that we put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools so our children can grow up learning what it means to be an American.

I still think I am right. I think our diversity and variety is one of the greatest strengths that we have as a country, but Jerusalem and the Balkans and Iraq are all diverse.

We are not doing a very good job of teaching just what those values are.

Thank you for making us proud. Thank you for devoting so much of yourself, your time, and your talents to excellence and to our Nation.

On a lighter topic, in my district last weekend we received formal recognition of what we from Green Bay have known for a long time, our area is one of the best places in America to live.