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

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…

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

Mr. Chairman, I am convinced that all of us here are trying to achieve the same goal. I think we all have good will on that. The language that the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Ford] and I offered in our amendment had been worked out very…

the Ford-Kildee amendment refers to all home schools, however they are classified by the States. The reference is to all home schools.