school vouchers

Editor's note: This is a transcript from the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 5, 2003, when Rep. Chris Bell spoke passionately against a private school voucher plan in the District of Columbia Appropriations act of 2004.
Mr. [CHRIS] BELL... Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the amendment, hopeful that we will pass the Norton amendment and not engage in what I think most charitably can be described as a giant cop-out.