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Schools need to be safe havens for all children. It is important to teach all of these character traits, but for us as adults, as the gentleman has pointed out, it is very important that we live up to those. Children are a lot smarter than…
There is no excuse when we have the power to do something about it. The majority does. We should move tomorrow. We should have a bill on this floor before we go home this weekend and we ought to pass it so that the farmers can go to work…
This Sunday, April 18, will mark the 1-year anniversary of the passing of a truly great and courageous North Carolinian and American. Former United States Senator and North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford died last year of complications…
Let me close by saying thank you for this opportunity to share with you, with our colleagues and with the American people hopefully an issue that is so critical to the future of this country, educating our young people, providing a rich…
I ran for this Congress because I was appalled when I was a superintendent at the sorry education legislation that I saw coming through, cuts in doing away with child nutrition programs, cuts in every education program that made a…
We have schools across this country, and I know in my State, before-school programs for children, before school opens they actually open the school and provide a morning day care, provide breakfast for them, and it is on a sliding scale…
We simply must put the maximum effort we can into improving of our public schools for our children. By that, I mean all the children of this country, not just a select few that we can give vouchers or something else and give a lot of lip…
One of the areas we have talked about, and I hope we can roll it out in the not-too-distant future, is for that to be refundable. That way it would serve the same purpose as if it were part of the Pell grant funds for those in need.
Today I rise to support a resolution to protect our seniors from politically motivated cuts in Social Security, veterans benefits, and pensions. This Congress must balance the Federal budget and we must do so in a manner that is consistent…
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