Dale Kildee: “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…”

“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 carefully with those who have been historically long involved in nonpublic education or religious education, the Catholic Conference, the Seventh-day Adventists. It was very carefully drafted. Mr fear is that we may unintentionally restrict the participation of those religious and private schools in many of the programs that we have enacted over many, many years, because language written here on the floor, with scratched-out and something inserted and a caret put here and a deletion and a stet put here, and it is pretty hard to determine really what we have. We are writing language that will affect the future of many schools in this country. So while I concur that we all are of good will here, good will alone will not guarantee that we will have the proper language.”