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

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.

I rise, again with a heavy heart, to oppose this amendment... to enact this amendment would mean the loss of dollars for a number of States... I do oppose the amendment, again with a heavy heart, but I feel that we must oppose it because…

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of h.R. 2455, the Safe Schools Act, and I commend its sponsor, Representative Owens, and Chairman Kildee, and the other members of the Education and Labor Committee for their leadership on this…

whatever the case may be, I do not read it that way and the attorneys do not read it that way, but we will nevertheless respond to those terms with very clear language.