Joe Cunningham: “this special order makes my heart soar like an eagle because you know you are able to talk about that I know the…”

“this special order makes my heart soar like an eagle because you know you are able to talk about that I know the chairman was an educator, and I know the gentleman from California [Mr. McKeon] owned a business, and I was a teacher, but not only in the high school, but the college level, and the dean of a college. And I have got children. And if the other side is trying to say that we are barbaric, that we are trying to destroy education, and I have got children in elementary and secondary education, and I want them to go onto college education, the last thing I am going to do is to bleed the public system that is going to help them. And the notice that they are giving to the American public, that we are cutting those programs, is upsetting to me. And I would say that you mentioned we control only 6 percent of the spending, but what does that 6 percent do? It represents over 50 percent of the rules and regulations on the States in the school systems, over 75 percent of the paperwork, and it is inefficient. That is not a legacy that we need to continue, and we are trying again to get the dollars down to the local level so that we can have better quality, we can have parental involvement to work with the teachers and the administrators and let them make the decisions instead of someone like Major Owens, or Mr. Miller, or Duke Cunningham, or anybody else here in Washington, DC. They talk about title I and Head Start and Goals 2000.”