Steve Chabot: “I think I am beginning to understand what the problem in education is today. It is pretty clear that everyone in the…”

“I think I am beginning to understand what the problem in education is today. It is pretty clear that everyone in the White House was educated in the 1960's style feel-good mushiness where rote memorization was taboo. How else to explain the astounding number of times the White House officials say ``I don't recall, I can't remember'' whenever they are asked to testify about all the various White House scandals under investigation. Mr. Speaker, what else are we to conclude if even the so-called best and brightest seem to have no capacity whatsoever to recall simple facts about the misdeeds of their employees? Is this perhaps a medical condition that we should be aware of, some kind of environmental problem in the water over at the White House that strikes at the very heart of the memory process? Mr. Speaker, the ``I do not recall'' problem over at the White House should not be allowed to infect the rest of the Nation, especially as children everywhere are heading back to school. Children should be taught that memory skills are important, too, that rote memorization that many of us had to do in schools, even if they are in short supply down at the White House.”