Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you for starting this series of hearings on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Our Nation faces an epidemic of childhood obesity.
I hope we can give a little bit of concentration to how we get the rubber to meet the road.
Among the Native Americans in my State, there's a high lactose intolerance. And we provide regular milk, not Lactaid.
there's never a stronger advocate for a child than the parent.
I was a speaker at Buffalo High School graduation, and the thing that really struck me was, out of all of the graduates there, there were no...
there are so many ways out there of having physical activity that kids kind of shy away from.
I really don't think that we celebrate, enough, the average child doing something physical.
Unfortunately, the Federal Government does not have a great track record in implementing programs that actually modify people's behaviors.
I think it is a good program. ... it makes a tremendous impact, and particularly when leaders like you are involved in it.
there's nothing worse than embarrassing anybody; they will never forgive you.