On the recordMay 1, 2002
I first want to commend both the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Schaffer) and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) for their leadership in support of real meaningful education reform for our kids. Our children are the most important heritage we have. We devote so much of what we do in this country to raising up the next generation of children in the hope that they will be able to become responsible citizens and become the leaders of tomorrow. We have a great heritage in the United States. Millions of great Americans have gone before us walking in all kinds of fields of knowledge and expertise, from the sciences to politics, to poetry, to education, the arts; and what we do and how we go about raising up the next generation is, in many ways, the most important thing that we do. In my opinion, we do have in many ways an inefficient system of helping educate our kids.
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