I rise, as I did last night about this time, as the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families of the Committee on Education to respectfully suggest that if the President of the United States is genuinely concerned about the education and well-being of our children, perhaps he ought to examine the lessons and the example that his own personal behavior is setting for our children
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