House Proceeding 11-06-09 on Nov 6th, 2009 :: 5:21:25 to 5:24:15
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Peter Hoekstra: other doctor. but when we have this pelosi nightmare shoved down our throats, i'm convinced that all of a sudden those decisions that were bettemade by the patients will be made by some bureaucrat. mr. hoekstra: and you and i in 2001, we didn't call it the pelosi nightmare, we called it in not so many words, maybe we were kinder, but we both

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Speech By: Peter Hoekstra

5:21:44 to 5:22:05( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: genuinely felt it was the president bush nightre for education and what have we found out? there were 41 of us, 41 of us that i believe stood up for the constitution, stood up for parents, stood up for lol public schools, stood up for the states, and voted no on no child left behind. eight years later there are a lot of people who now recognize

5:22:06 to 5:22:27( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: that program doesn't work, i leaving more kids behind, it's wasting money and the answer some people have now is we have to spend more. it's k you're sending a dollar to washington and the thing that you highlighted, washington skims off the top, bureaucracy skims off the top, we now know

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Peter Hoekstra: education, when we send a dollar from michigan, whether it's from holland or lansing or detroit, you know, or pontiac, and it comes to washington, before it ever gets back into a classroom where we're actually doing what education dollars should do, which is educating children, we figure that we lose about 35

5:22:50 to 5:23:10( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: cents of that dollar in wasted bureaucracy. we just had -- i tried to talk and i have not been able to connect yet, but the superintendent of pontiac public schools. i give him credit. they took the federal government to court and said, this is

5:23:11 to 5:23:31( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: unconstitutional. it is unfair and inappropriate for the federal government to have these kinds of mandates on our schools because what's the other thing that they do? when they say no child left behind they say, you shall -- they don't give them the money to do it. so he said, you know, the school district said, you can't put all

5:23:32 to 5:23:53( Edit History Discussion )

Peter Hoekstra: of these unfunded mandates on us because what you're forcing us to do is to spend money on programs that we don't think are a priority for our kids. we know our kids, we know their names, we know what their challenges are and we've got these set of priorities that we think we need to spend on our kids to make sure they get the

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Peter Hoekstra: -- who wants more, you know, that superintendent and those that community, you're right, they know those kids' names and what they need and they want to get the most advancement for those kids. the bureaucrats here in washington, what do they know? they know the book of rules and