Virginia Foxx: “I am a very, very proud cosponsor of H.R. 3499. I served for 12 years on a school board in Wataugwa County in North…”

“I am a very, very proud cosponsor of H.R. 3499. I served for 12 years on a school board in Wataugwa County in North Carolina and often felt very oppressed by Federal rules and regulations. When I was on the school board, and even after that, I have checked and double-checked and about 7 percent of the money that North Carolina schools get comes from the Federal Government, but about 99 percent of the rules and regulations that come into the school system come from the Federal Government. I think passing H.R. 3499 would be one of the best things this Congress or any Congress could do. It would force State legislatures and thereby force school boards and county commissioners to make a decision as to whether or not they want to take the Federal money and the rules and regulations that go along with it. {time} 1530 It would take us out of the business of saying that they have to do this. I think that it is high time that we change the way we do business between the Federal Government and the State governments. I want to just remind us, and my colleague has paraphrased the words of the Constitution, but I do not think that we can repeat the Constitution too often. I know there are a lot of young people in the audience and some not so young people in the gallery today. I hope you will take the time to read your Constitution at least once a year, and probably more often than that.…”