Political Quotes

“I rise in strong support of the Armey amendment. This amendment makes explicit, has language which makes explicit, what some may feel is implicit in the amendment on which we previously voted. The hundreds of thousands of constituents who called our offices demand explicit language that will prevent the Federal Government from ever reaching into private schools and home schools to wreak on them the damage that it has done to education in the public schools. As a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, in the Constitution, which I read, I can find no justification for Federal Government meddling, even in public schools. Please, Mr. Chairman, let us vote for the Armey amendment to make sure that the damage the Federal Government does to education is not pushed down into private schools and home schools.”