mr. fitzpatrick, for five minutes. mr. fitzpatrick: thank you mr. speaker. last year alone over 450 teachers or school employees across the nation were arrested for misconduct with a child. that's more than one per day. what's more, the department of education has estimated that nearly 10% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career. those numbers should be disturbing to every lawmaker, to every parent and every grandparent in this body. in an effort to curb this alarming trend, i am proud that student success act, under debate here today includes language from a bill that i introduced the jeremy bell act to strengthen student protection efforts and get serious about who's being hired and transferred within our school systems. the jeremy bell act was named for a young boy from west virginia who was drugged, sexually assaulted and murdered by his elementary school principal, a man who had been suspected of sexual misconduct at previous jobs but was allowed to quietly transferred from district to district avoiding

mr. fitzpatrick: sister claire was born in philadelphia, entered the sisters of st. francis in 19 45, beginning her career as an elementary teacher. in 1980 she joined the medical team as an assistant administrator where i worked as a pharmacy clerk. i will never forget her kind interaction with her staff. nobody was more proud of the colleagues, physicians and volunteers at st. maries that sister claire. in 1982, sister claire rose to the rank of president and c.e.o. of st. mary and it led to the development of one of the first community hospital open heart surgery programs in the area, as well as the establishment of the only trauma center in my home community of the county of bucks. after two decades of work, sister claire left st. mary to serve in the development of health services for catholic east. she devoted her time to the sisters of st. francis. st. clair was instrumental in the establishing of the mother bachmann maternity center children's health center, family resource center and the bucks county home project. you won't meet anybody with the passion, cha