Dale Kildee

The Girls Act responds to findings in the 1998 AAUW Educational Foundation Report, Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children, which identified a number of areas where the educational needs of girls are still unmet.

Sexual harassment is widespread and affects female students at all levels of education, including those in elementary and secondary schools.

I am pleased to introduce The Educating America's Girls Act of 1999, or the Girls Act, along with Representatives Nancy Johnson, William Clay, Connie Morella, Lynn Woolsey, and many of my other colleagues today.

The Girls Act strengthens support for programs to keep pregnant and parenting teens in school to earn a high school diploma.

Current law lacks assurances that federal education programs will compensate for girls' different learning styles and different exposures to technology.

Education is the means for all girls, including pregnant and parenting teens, to achieve economic self-sufficiency.

By working together, we can ensure that the educational needs of both boys and girls are met in the 1999 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

We need to dismantle the virtual ceiling now, before it becomes a real-life barrier to girls' futures.

The Girls Act affords an opportunity to greatly reduce the incidence of sexual harassment by gathering data on these often hidden offenses and providing programs to prevent sexual harassment and abuse.

The Girls Act reauthorizes WEEA.

most Members of this House serve their country without ever being called upon to address two of the most awesome questions that could come before this body, and they are the question of war and the question of the impeachment of the…

I rise in support of the conference report to accompany S. 2000, the Human Services Amendment of 1994. This conference agreement provides for a 4-year extension and improvement of Head Start, the community services block grant, low-income…

I rise in strong support of H.R. 4250, a bill to reauthorize Head Start, low-income home energy assistance, and community services block grants. I would like to commend Chairman Ford and Chairman Martinez as well as Mr. Goodling and Ms…

I rise in strong support of the conference report on the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. In today's highly competitive global economy, business performance is increasingly reliant upon the knowledge and skills of its workers…

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Michel substitute. H.R. 6 represents a very carefully crafted compromise designed to reflect the concerns of Democrats and Republicans alike. We have worked very closely to go over a yearlong…

I would like to indicate first that this bill, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, was passed as one of the great achievements of President Lyndon Johnson, and helping President Lyndon Johnson pass this bill in a very, very…

Mr. Chairman, I want to tell the gentleman from Missouri he may think they are Federal mandates, but, as the gentleman from Wisconsin pointed out the other day, he made it very clear that there are no Federal mandates in this bill. There…

Many of my colleagues heard me state many times that education is a local function, a State responsibility and a very important Federal concern, and I think that balance is very important. But with this amendment we make education a…

We may not agree, but I just wanted to make my statement that it is not a federally mandated program.

Bilingual education, as has been pointed out by the gentleman from Michigan, is the only Federal assistance program designed to help State and the school districts to meet the needs of students with limited English proficiency. I would…

Mr. Chairman, I think the gentlewoman from Hawaii [Mrs. Mink] has brought to us an area of very great interest to all of us, something that we have expressed interest in for the last few authorizations, and I would like to do this: I would…

I rise in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, the gentleman's amendment would strike key portions of title 2 which are designed to increase opportunities for students to achieve high standards and to prepare for the 21st century…

The fact is that this program is not a $10 million program. It is one-half of that. Fliers were passed around by those who are trying to defeat this program. This flier that is dated March 2, 1994, says at the top, ``Get the correct…

my amendment to the substitute offered by the gentleman from New York is meant to protect a program of special interest to many Members in the House, including this Member. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program, commonly called DARE…