On the recordMarch 8, 2001
I would like to add my own personal support for full funding of IDEA. This is an issue which has come to me as a professional; I am a professional educator by trade. My wife in particular, Lorraine, also worked in special ed for a number of years in Guam, and in dealing with children with the severest conditions, particularly infant children, one of the unfortunate dimensions of not fully funding an activity like this is when one is in an isolated community like Guam, they are unable to secure the kinds of financial resources and professional attention that they need. When they have a small community but they have these very strong needs and these are human beings and these are people that we have made a national commitment to, it is exactly the appropriate day today to raise this in the context of the fact that we have let an opportunity go by to raise this.
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