Political Quotes

“if there is anything that we have heard over the past week with the thousands of phone calls that all of us have received in our offices, it is that the American people want us to stay out of their education system. My wife and I, as the mother and father of two daughters in public schools, want our neighbors and community leaders to make decisions about our schools. We do not need Federal bureaucrats in Washington, DC making decisions that affect the education of our children. Now we have before us a 900-page bill that virtually no Member of this body has read. That is how these problems come to this body. The Armey amendment fixes one of those problems. But we ought to remember to take time as we are legislating to make sure that we know what we are doing, to make sure that we know what is in the legislation before we bring it to this floor. The Armey amendment is a good amendment. I believe it does protect parochial schools, and as one who spent 16 years in parochial schools, along with my 11 brothers and sisters, I am satisfied that parochial schools are well covered with this language.”