On the recordMarch 3, 1994
I want to assert my very strong opposition to the Rohrabacher amendment. There have been some very eloquent statements made here today citing the history of this country and the responsibilities that we have as a nation for the children who live here, not to establish punitive measures against them or to place onerous obligations and burdens upon the school systems. It is this amendment that is an infraction upon what has already been established not only as the philosophy, as the policy, but as the law of this land, and that is we must not discriminate in the education of our children. This is to impose a new duty upon our schools that have no part whatsoever in the educational improvement or enhancement of the quality of education in our school systems. And, in fact, it is an abrogation of the Supreme Court decisions which say we must educate all of our children.
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