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Burgess Owens: “I want to call it ``Overwhelming Neglect: The Arithmetic of Federal Aid to Education.'' I am going to talk about the…”

On the recordApril 13, 1999
I want to call it ``Overwhelming Neglect: The Arithmetic of Federal Aid to Education.'' I am going to talk about the simple arithmetic of Federal aid to education, no higher mathematics, no logarithms, no differential equations and calculus, nothing complicated, just simple arithmetic. I want the students of America out there attending school to join me in trying to educate my colleagues here in the House of Representatives and in the whole Washington decision-making arena. There is something wrong with decision-making in Washington at this point about education, something radically wrong. I think we need the children, the students, younger minds, to come to the aid of the decision-making circles here. We have some decision-making circles with closed minds.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Discussing the need for better federal aid to education and involving students in the decision-making process.

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