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Artur Davis: “A lot of them are coming home now, and they are watching this debate, and they are asking a very basic question: Why is…”

On the recordJune 18, 2003
A lot of them are coming home now, and they are watching this debate, and they are asking a very basic question: Why is this House even assessing the question of Head Start? Why is this House even talking about dismantling Head Start, when in their own lives they see this program has been so enormously successful? There is an old maxim that if something is not broke, you do not fix it; and the perspective of a large number of people I represent in Birmingham, Alabama, and Selma and Tuscaloosa and in all of the rural counties in my State is that this has been a part of the War on Poverty that has endured. This program, which was launched in the 1960s, has endured, it has survived, and it has notably commanded bipartisan support.
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Artur Davis
Democratic · Alabama
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Addressing the importance and success of the Head Start program during a House debate.

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