Each local educational agency shall reserve not less than 1 percent of its allocation under this part for the purposes of carrying out this section, including family literacy and parenting skills. There is no requirement for proving…

I rise tonight to update the situation in Haiti. I want to talk about our Haitian policy and the fact that that Haitian policy, and all of the activities surrounding Haiti presently, represent a mushrooming United States foreign policy and…

Nobody says how it should be done or, ``That's all you should do.'' We say, ``You should spend a minimum of 1 percent.'' They can argue that we have many other parent involvement activities that are not involved with expenditures of the…

Will the gentleman accept the amendment if I work with him to limit? Say we are going to go together to the Department of Education and work with them to make sure the regulation limits any reporting requirements to two or three sentences…

The question is, ``Why didn't you send a letter to the parents to come to this one important meeting per year in the mail?'' ``We didn't have the postage,'' the principal says. ``Why didn't you have the postage?'' You know, out of the…

I said it might be they spent $360 on stamps to notify parents of various meetings. Yes, that is a possibility.

Would you go with me, and, if I pledge to go with you to the Department of Education and, in addition to the language in the report which makes it clear this is no new reporting requirement, to make sure that they don't come up with…

the CIA must be downsized and disinfected. The headlines today provide us with new proof that the intelligence operations dinosaur, which devours billions of dollars, taxpayers' dollars, is corrupt as well as inefficient and out of…

in the current budget there is a recommendation to eliminate certain programs for the training of the unemployed. Programs which offer training for only 6 months have finally been declared unworkable by the Secretary of Labor. For many…

there have been some loud cries for special prosecutors and special investigations and hearings by Congress, and I am all in favor of that, whenever large amounts of money are involved. But let us not just have these diversionary…

today is the day after the State of the Union Address, and I have been asked to make many comments by the press, by constituents, on the State of the Union Address. It is a very important occasion for our Nation, and our lives should be…