would one solution just be to give it all to the Department of Labor?

If it is impractical, I think it would help us if we were told that and told, instead of doing this, let us do that.

Mr. Card, I would like to look to the future a little bit.

Thanks for having the hearing and thanks for your leadership and that of Senators Grassley and Murkowski on this issue.

The hearing today will address the intersection of two concerns which are extremely important to the future of our country: the education of our children and the principles that unite us as Americans.

This hearing is specifically on the subject of legislation which I introduced with 19 cosponsors.

We hope we can play a role in taking all the various programs... back in its rightful place in our curriculum.

Too many of our children do not know what makes America exceptional.

It is time to put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools.

the legislation I propose today will help our schools do what they were established to do in the first place.

In my, as we call it in the Senate, so-called maiden address, I spoke on this subject, and I said I thought we had spent over the last 30 or 40 years too much time, relatively, on diversity, multiculturalism, and bilingualism and too…

I want to especially acknowledge the presence of Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

It is time that we put the teaching of American history and civics back in its rightful place in our schools so our children can grow up learning what it means to be an American.

I still think I am right. I think our diversity and variety is one of the greatest strengths that we have as a country, but Jerusalem and the Balkans and Iraq are all diverse.

We are not doing a very good job of teaching just what those values are.

We need to do a better job of teaching just what those values are.

Children usually do not learn because they are not being taught, and so the focus today is to put an increased focus on the teaching of American history and civics.

I hope you don't come to the same end he did.

The accomplishment is that we have taken all that variety and diversity and turned it into one country, and we do not talk about that.

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