NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “we should rejoice in our constitutional republic when there are differences of opinion. And I welcome the comments from…”

“we should rejoice in our constitutional republic when there are differences of opinion. And I welcome the comments from my friend the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Allen). Although I think that harsh political attacks, even taking a look at where we are on the calendar, may be somewhat out of place here. Attacking prosperity is curious. Attacking local control of public education is even more curious. Mr. Speaker, ``curiouser and curiouser'' said Alice through the looking glass. The fact is we stand for local control, putting parents in charge of education. And, yes, we invite our friends to put people in front of politics and join with us in a bipartisan way to make sure there is full health care deductibility, to make sure that there are solutions not decreed by Washington bureaucrats but by the people at home and the business owners and parents in the home and teachers in the classroom. That is where our strength remains, not in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C.”