House Resolution 124 PAG LIN 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