Dale Kildee: “The Girls Act reauthorizes WEEA.”

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 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.

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…

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.