House Amendment 8370
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;
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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
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2 6 WISE of Lee
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2 10 FOEGE of Linn
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2 14 CONNORS of Polk
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2 18 SMITH of Marshall
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2 22 REASONER of Union
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2 26 T. TAYLOR of Linn
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2 30 HUNTER of Polk
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2 34 OLDSON of Polk
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2 38 DANDEKAR of Linn
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2 42 JACOBY of Johnson
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2 46 STEVENS of Dickinson
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2 50 WENDT of Woodbury
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3 4 GREIMANN of Story
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3 8 BELL of Jasper
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3 12 SHOULTZ of Black Hawk
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3 16 COHOON of Des Moines
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3 20 FALLON of Polk
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3 24 SWAIM of Davis
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3 28 HUSER of Polk
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3 32 WINCKLER of Scott
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3 36 BUKTA of Clinton
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3 40 D. OLSON of Boone
3 41 HJR 2002.301 80
3 42 pf/cf
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