Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment, which will do two things which Members of this Chamber have been claiming they wanted to do for a long time. First, it will save the Federal Government a quarter of a billion dollars every year that it is currently spending on a counterproductive program. We can get study after study, for every study that someone brings forth that says this is so effective, there are other studies, in fact more numerous studies, which show that bilingual education, as it exists today, is counterproductive and hurts the people it is intended to help rather than helping those people that people of goodwill are trying to help in this body. Second of all, it will end one of the largest unfunded mandates ever imposed on local schools, one that costs States and school districts-- it will eliminate one of the largest unfunded mandates that have been imposed on public schools, local schools, across States and school districts, billions of dollars every year.”