I am prepared to close then. The Acting CHAIR. Does the gentleman from Virginia have any additional speakers?

Can I ask how much time is remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 3 minutes remaining.

There were a lot of problems in No Child Left Behind, and one of them, of course, is this top-down idea that the Federal Government can run education. This is a relatively simple amendment. We are shrinking the time that this bill, which…

The more the government collects data of any sort--you know, we have seen every agency. Eventually, it is going to get out somewhere.

On rollcall No. 3, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes.'' Stated against:

The problem I have is when they talk about this holiday without getting its history or given the limited amount of time we have in our public schools when they decide to use that time to promote Kwanzaa and present it as a holiday that…

I think we have to agree most Americans wouldn't choose to celebrate this holiday.

What we can do is we can say before it's presented as some special holiday, before the school children of America, we point out the background of the holiday and why it was created.

Of course, almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa; just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people's throats in an effort to divide Americans. Mainstream Americans must be more outspoken on this issue. It is time…

You've got to remember, Ron Karenga... was a black separatist who felt the Black Panthers didn't dislike white people enough.

The proof is the things he said at the time. He did not like Christianity, because of course, he considered -- Christianity is a religion for all Americans and all people all around the world.

I think that most news anchor types, before they did a nice feel-good story about Kwanzaa, presented what the founder was really about it wouldn't get off the ground in the first place.

I think there are some politicians who would -- who would try to ingratiate themselves to anybody. And that's the way some politicians are.

I think the underlying problem here is not enough TV types when they talk about Kwanzaa, talk about the horrible racist violent past of its founder.

Nobody is preventing anybody from celebrating it.

What we can do is we can say that, before it's presented as some special holiday, before the school children of America, we point out the background of the holiday and why it was created.

There's a big difference.

Well, we all have our offices open on Columbus Day. Right.

He was a Marxist and he did beat up and physically abuse the women who were his followers.

Be on the lookout if a K through 12 or college teacher tries to tell your children or grandchildren it's a real holiday.