Jolene Unsoeld

That is a local school and locally elected school board's decision, not the Federal Government's.

But a threat prior to the vote is probably exactly the kind of lobbyist influence to which the public objects and to which we should try to rise above as a legislative body representing those people.

I believe it is highly appropriate for people outside the doors or anyplace to be expressing their view. What I take exception to is the threat that a vote is about to be scored, and then he list of the organizations for which that scoring…

But the Doolittle amendment imposes a Federal curriculum on how local school boards can use their own dollars. It has not been done before in our history, and it is not appropriate now for the Federal Government to dictate to local…

I fear that the sponsor of this amendment is not desiring to respond to his own colleagues about the need to not waste the $20 billion that is already being spent on Head Start and Even Start by failing to sustain the progress of these…

Mr. Chairman, I fear that the sponsor of this amendment is not desiring to respond to his own colleagues about the need to not waste the $20 billion that is already being spent on Head Start and Even Start by failing to sustain the…