Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.