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1 1 HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY WISE, FOEGE, CONNORS, MURPHY, SMITH, QUIRK,
1 3 REASONER, T. TAYLOR, HUNTER, OLDSON, DANDEKAR, JACOBY,
1 4 STEVENS, WENDT, FREVERT, GREIMANN, BELL, D. TAYLOR,
1 5 SHOULTZ, WHITAKER, HOGG, COHOON, FALLON, STRUYK,
1 6 GASKILL, SWAIM, HUSER, WINCKLER, and BUKTA
1 7 A Resolution encouraging the President of the United
1 8 States to take swift action to remove Rod Paige
1 9 from the position of United States Secretary
1 10 of Education.
1 11 WHEREAS, the United States Secretary of Education
1 12 is the leader for federal education policy issues; and
1 13 WHEREAS, every State in the Union is in the middle
1 14 of implementing one of the more far-reaching federal
1 15 mandates designed to improve student achievement; and
1 16 WHEREAS, the United States is a democracy that
1 17 requires leadership to bring people with differing
1 18 views together, rather than a government that works to
1 19 divide its people; and
1 20 WHEREAS, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige
1 21 recently alienated millions of educators and 2.7
1 22 million teachers in the National Education Association
1 23 by making inappropriate comments during a private
1 24 meeting with governors at the White House; and
1 25 WHEREAS, efforts to change the federal policies
1 26 that impact the education of children in our public
1 27 schools should not be considered an act of terrorism;
1 28 and
1 29 WHEREAS, a number of Representatives and Senators
1 30 of the Iowa General Assembly are members of the
2 1 National Education Association and are loyal to the
2 2 principles of America's representative democracy; and
2 3 WHEREAS, Secretary Rod Paige's apology to the
2 4 members of the National Education Association failed
2 5 to repudiate the content of his inappropriate
2 6 comments; and
2 7 WHEREAS, Secretary Rod Paige has repeatedly made
2 8 inaccurate and unfair statements about Iowa's
2 9 implementation of federal law regarding education
2 10 policy; NOW THEREFORE,
2 11 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
2 12 That the President of the United States, George W.
2 13 Bush, is urged to take swift action to remove Rod
2 14 Paige from the position of United States Secretary of
2 15 Education; and
2 16 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Chief Clerk of the
2 17 House of Representatives transmit copies of this
2 18 Resolution to the President of the United States, and
2 19 to the President of the United States Senate, the
2 20 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives,
2 21 the members of Iowa's congressional delegation, and
2 22 the United States Secretary of Education, that they
2 23 may be apprised of the sense of the Iowa House of
2 24 Representatives in this matter.
2 25 LSB 6643HH 80
2 26 kh/gg/14
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