BY CONGRESSWOMAN MAZIE HIRONO, D-HI – I will be returning to Washington, DC this weekend to vote for $39.3 million in federal funding for education in Hawaii.
I will join my colleagues on Tuesday as the House considers H.R. 1586, the House version of a $26 billion emergency legislation passed today by the U.S. Senate.
If approved, it will go to the White House for the President’s signature.
Though I regret that I have to cancel some of my planned district events, I know that this bill cannot wait until our originally scheduled return to DC in six weeks.
This legislation will protect hundreds of Hawaii teachers’ jobs as well as numerous other education jobs throughout the state. As a member of the House Education and Labor Committee I know the importance of supporting these professionals.
This funding will enable the State Department of Education to strengthen resources throughout our system to support student learning.
Mazie K. Hirono, Member of Congress, 2nd District of Hawaii
More needless taxpayer dollar spending that will most definitely get sucked up into these bloated bureaucracies you have created will never to reach teaching budgets of these agencies. What you and others fail to realize is that these department of education’s need to trim their fat. We here in Hawaii observed this with our own DOE and its 32,000 employees. Instead of laying off a portion of the 22,000 adminitative staff members they made a power game into it and jepordized our children by laying off 11,000 teachers on furlough Fridays.
I like many others are happy that this is an election year. It’s time for a change Ms. Hirono. We have witnessed the greatest economic collapse second to the Great Depression all because of you and your fellow Progressives’ intrusions into our lives.
Comments are closed.