Mark Souder: “let me first say at the beginning of my remarks tonight that one of the questions that I received all weekend, and that…”

“let me first say at the beginning of my remarks tonight that one of the questions that I received all weekend, and that many others are, is do you guys do anything out there other than talk about certain pending matters that have been widely discussed this past weekend? And the answer is of course we do. We have not had the first hearing on the specifics of what everybody in this country seems to be talking about. At the same time, I agree with what the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) said earlier that it is important that we focus on numerous issues. Earlier today, I was down here discussing the Head Start debate and the Community Services block grant debate, and quite frankly, I got no media inquiries about revising the entire Head Start system in the United States. I got no media inquiries about revising the Community Services block grant and what innovative programs we are doing, since we do not believe the solution is always the Federal Government, what innovative solutions we are trying at the community level to develop.”