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21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act

Floor Speech

Date: May 13, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: K-12 Education Environment

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Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Chairman, there is perhaps no need for me to use the 2 minutes since there's no opposition. I would like to commend my colleague from Arizona for the vision of submitting this amendment.

Mr. Chairman, the truth of the matter is that 20 percent, 20 percent, of Americans go to school each day, not unlike the pages who are here in Washington, who go to school every single day. And when you consider that 20 percent of the population is in school, if we take advantage of the fact that they are in school to teach them why and how we are greening America by beginning to green their schools, it cannot help but build an America, our Nation, in a manner that will utilize to the best of the ability of its people the resources we have.

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