Jolene Unsoeld: “That is a local school and locally elected school board's decision, not the Federal Government's.”

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…

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 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.

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…