Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate so much my colleague from North Carolina. Having been a president of a university, she knows all about…”

“I appreciate so much my colleague from North Carolina. Having been a president of a university, she knows all about education. It is certainly one of the areas where we are failing American youth these days, and you would have thought that, if the Federal Government were the answer to everybody's problems, then when President Carter started the Department of Education, everything would have gotten instantly better; but over 35 years later, it turns out the Federal Government is not the answer to better education. I have talked with enough high school students who also say the Federal Government is not the answer to their food problems. I have met with cafeteria workers and leaders who say that kids are not eating the food. They are required to choose from lists of foods to put on the plates that they had heretofore not heard of before that students don't want, don't like. The football players were saying last fall: How in the world can we go to football practice and all we get is this piddly little bit of meat and other stuff we can't eat? So obviously, education, food has not been helped, certainly not according to my constituents in east Texas, the vast majority; and education itself does not seem to have made all that great or remarkable progress since the Carter administration started the Department of Education and Congress began putting strings on virtually everything they did in the way of educational support.…”