Text: H08369 Text: H08371 Text: H08300 - H08399 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 Amend House Joint Resolution 2002 as follows: 1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 5 the 1 3 following: 1 4 "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the President of the 1 5 United States, George W. Bush, is urged to take swift 1 6 action to remove Rod Paige from the position of United 1 7 States Secretary of Education." 1 8 #2. Page 1, line 7, by inserting after the word 1 9 "States" the following: ", the United States 1 10 Secretary of Education, the President of the United 1 11 States". 1 12 #3. Title page 1, line 1, by inserting after the 1 13 word "Resolution" the following: "relating to 1 14 marriage and education as the foundations of a healthy 1 15 society by urging the removal of the United States 1 16 Secretary of Education and by". 1 17 #4. Title page 2, line 6, by inserting after the 1 18 word "foundation;" the following: "and 1 19 WHEREAS, a strong education system is also 1 20 essential to the foundation of a healthy society and 1 21 government has a duty to protect the education system; 1 22 and 1 23 WHEREAS, the United States Secretary of Education 1 24 is the leader for federal education policy issues; and 1 25 WHEREAS, every State in the Union is in the middle 1 26 of implementing one of the more far-reaching federal 1 27 mandates designed to improve student achievement; and 1 28 WHEREAS, the United States is a democracy that 1 29 requires leadership to bring people with differing 1 30 views together, rather than a government that works to 1 31 divide its people; and 1 32 WHEREAS, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige 1 33 recently alienated millions of educators and 2.7 1 34 million teachers in the National Education Association 1 35 by making inappropriate comments during a private 1 36 meeting with governors at the White House; and 1 37 WHEREAS, efforts to change the federal policies 1 38 that impact the education of children in our public 1 39 schools should not be considered an act of terrorism; 1 40 and 1 41 WHEREAS, a number of Representatives and Senators 1 42 of the Iowa General Assembly are members of the 1 43 National Education Association and are loyal to the 1 44 principles of America's representative democracy; and 1 45 WHEREAS, Secretary Rod Paige's apology to the 1 46 members of the National Education Association failed 1 47 to repudiate the content of his inappropriate 1 48 comments; and 1 49 WHEREAS, Secretary Rod Paige has repeatedly made 1 50 inaccurate and unfair statements about Iowa's 2 1 implementation of federal law regarding education 2 2 policy;" 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 WISE of Lee 2 7 2 8 2 9 2 10 FOEGE of Linn 2 11 2 12 2 13 2 14 CONNORS of Polk 2 15 2 16 2 17 2 18 SMITH of Marshall 2 19 2 20 2 21 2 22 REASONER of Union 2 23 2 24 2 25 2 26 T. TAYLOR of Linn 2 27 2 28 2 29 2 30 HUNTER of Polk 2 31 2 32 2 33 2 34 OLDSON of Polk 2 35 2 36 2 37 2 38 DANDEKAR of Linn 2 39 2 40 2 41 2 42 JACOBY of Johnson 2 43 2 44 2 45 2 46 STEVENS of Dickinson 2 47 2 48 2 49 2 50 WENDT of Woodbury 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 GREIMANN of Story 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 BELL of Jasper 3 9 3 10 3 11 3 12 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk 3 13 3 14 3 15 3 16 COHOON of Des Moines 3 17 3 18 3 19 3 20 FALLON of Polk 3 21 3 22 3 23 3 24 SWAIM of Davis 3 25 3 26 3 27 3 28 HUSER of Polk 3 29 3 30 3 31 3 32 WINCKLER of Scott 3 33 3 34 3 35 3 36 BUKTA of Clinton 3 37 3 38 3 39 3 40 D. OLSON of Boone 3 41 HJR 2002.301 80 3 42 pf/cf
Text: H08369 Text: H08371 Text: H08300 - H08399 Text: H Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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