Dan Miller: “Finally, it hampers our ability to expand trade opportunities for America's farmers.”

Mr. Chairman, H.R. 6 cannot pass the House in its current form. Somewhere along the line the bill lost track of our tradition of allowing States, local school boards and families to develop education policy and, instead embarked on a…

Mr. Chairman, this is the last opportunity that Mr. Boehner and I will have to enhance the effectiveness of this education bill by eliminating unwanted and unneeded programs. The National Writing Project was added to H.R. 6 during the…

the opponents of this try and create the impression that I am opposed to library books, that the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] is opposed to library books or opposed to computers in the classroom. That is not the argument. There are…

this amendment would simply eliminate $550 million per year in new spending added by the Education and Labor Committee--$550 million in redundant spending which has not even been requested by President Clinton in his budget. This amendment…