NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I welcome people of all points of view to this Chamber and to this well, but facts are stubborn things. Perhaps if the…”

“I welcome people of all points of view to this Chamber and to this well, but facts are stubborn things. Perhaps if the Washington bureaucrats at the Department of Education were better educated in mathematics, they could tell us where $18 billion appropriated by this Congress ended up. Here is a major hint: it did not end up in the classroom helping teachers teach and helping children learn. So when we have the litany of shame, remember the real shame is the people who ask for more and more and yet less and less responsibility in actually helping our children learn with the money we send to Washington. Mr. Speaker, another case in point: a lady now in her 80s, dependent on Social Security. Twenty years ago, her husband died and the IRS came to her and said she owed Uncle Sam $800,000. The family business was sold. Is that compassionate? Is that an irresponsible thing? I think it is irresponsible, not compassionate. Let us put the death tax to death and ask for more responsibility.”