NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I just would like to thank my colleague from California, because not only has he outlined the parameters of the problem…”

“I just would like to thank my colleague from California, because not only has he outlined the parameters of the problem, but he has offered a solution. Mr. Speaker, just simply to bring this home to Arizona, the Sixth Congressional District and indeed throughout the State of Arizona, there are real problems with inequities in school funding. There are real challenges for rural school districts who, through the evisceration of resource-based industries, have seen their tax bases decline exponentially. Indeed, I think of Superior High School in the town of Superior, AZ, in the Sixth Congressional District, where the high school is anything but superior in terms of the building. Now, the students that go there are truly superior, fine young people working hard, but they are in a situation where their school has fallen into disrepair and the tax base has been eradicated. So we have to look for other ways to end these funding inequities, and that is why I am so pleased that my colleague from California wants to step forward with a plan that would call on private enterprise to step forward, and now with a seat on Ways and Means I look forward to working with the gentleman from California and with the gentleman from Texas, the chairman of that committee, to find a way to deal with the Tax Code to help business help schools.”