Senate Journal: Page 5: Monday, January 11, 1999

  committed to those goals today.  Last year we also pledged and delivered
  bipartisan cooperation to help achieve Governor Branstad's recommendations
  related to education.  On the campaign trail this fall many in your party
  proposed
  assessing children's reading skills in the 3rd and 4th grade and providing
  schools
  with the resources to help kids that are lagging behind to catch up.  I
  believe that
  if we enter this session in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation that we can
  move
  forward on all of these proposals and make real progress in reclaiming our
  first in
  the nation status in education.  We accomplished much last year when we
  worked
  together.  Tens of thousands of Iowa children are right now becoming
  eligible for
  health insurance.  We began a program to assist in the development of value
  added agriculture.  We invested in early childhood education.  We can
  accomplish
  much when we work together.  A great man once said, "We're going to lose
  these
  opportunities of real reform.  It's sad that he is not willing to accept

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