Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the ranking member makes a good point, and maybe it is an opportune time to explain some of what goes into developing legislation. A lot of work from staff, Democrat staff and Republican staff on our committee. Kara Haas, certainly David Finger, spent many hours, sending out inquiries to the business community around the United States for their suggestions on how this award program should evolve and develop to really accomplish our goals of encouraging the business community to be more active and take a greater part in improving math and science education. I would like to tell a very short story in trying to improve math and science education. I was talking to an individual who is the director of international studies at one of our Michigan colleges. I asked him his ideas. He is from India. He grew up in India. He told me the story when he came home in about the 8th grade with a report card that showed a B in math, and he showed that to his father and tears welled up in his dad's eyes. And his dad went out and hired a tutor to try to improve his son's math skills. He suggested that almost all students in India concentrate on being successful in fundamental math and science before they continue their career maybe in some other field. That lesson should be especially acknowledged by us today when we are doing a lot of outsourcing of math and science to engineers in other countries such as India.”