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I would like to thank the following staff for their hard work in helping to ensure a strong bill was crafted and moved through the Congress expeditiously: On the Education and Labor Committee staff, Alan Lopatin and Kris Gilbert; On the…
There is a stronger correlation between being poor when you go to college and not being able to pay your loan than there is between where you finish with respect to your peers in school. If you go to college from a poor family and an…
I am sorry. I think the words should be taken down, and he should be silenced in this Chamber.
If the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] has an objective here, he should attain that objective by amending the immigration laws and putting obligations on local police departments, school districts, whoever he wants to…
We do not believe it is right to have little children in public schools enlisted to be spies against other members of their families, no matter who pays for it. We do not care whether it is funded or unfunded. It is immoral. It is wrong.
If the gentleman from California [Mr. Rohrabacher] has an objective here, he should attain that objective by amending the immigration laws and putting obligations on local police departments, school districts, whoever he wants to…
I support a balanced budget amendment and always have. The borrow and spend policies of the past must not continue. The ability to expand our economy and provide job opportunities for this and future generations... absolutely depends upon…
This is a stand-alone resolution. I have never heard of any other constitutional amendment being shopped around like any other piece of legislation to see what you would like to have so I can get enough votes. You call ours a budget…
I just wanted the gentleman to make clear on the record, so courts trying to interpret what we are doing here will understand that the gentleman recognizes that what he is doing is simply reenacting the already existing law, and he does…
Mr. Chairman, I would ask the gentleman, is it his intent that notwithstanding any language in his amendment that might be construed by anybody or the courts to the contrary, that he intends to ensure all of the protections that are in the…
Yes. Whatever somebody else calls it, my understanding is that people wanted to be assured that in those States that permit it people who choose to educate their children at home will be permitted to do so. We are not going to get into…
In my State they call that ``whipping a dead horse. If you do not want to take what I give you, I will fight you.''
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