Frank Riggs: “I just wanted to interject at this point in the debate, colleagues, that as part of my own personal deliberations, in…”

fundamentally this debate is about the refusal of my colleagues on the other side to give up their Band-Aid-- their fig leaf--their placebo for the failure of their great society social programs and the failure of the public education…

I just, first of all, want to thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) for what I think is a good-faith decision on his part to raise this issue for debate but perhaps not to pursue an amendment. We disagree on, if you will, the…

Mr. Chairman, I just again want to, for the benefit of all my colleagues, put matters in perspective in terms of what is taking place in the University of California system. The latest systemwide data released by the University of…

this is a profoundly sad and disturbing time for me. I had hoped to conclude my Congressional service on a high note after the Congress passed, and the President signed, my bills improving literacy, expanding vocational and technical…