Bob Schaffer: “back home in Colorado, school is just getting underway. Three of those kids in public schools are my own, and I care…”

“back home in Colorado, school is just getting underway. Three of those kids in public schools are my own, and I care about education. And I, like most parents, want the U.S. Department of Education to get the money that it spends to the classroom. I do not want to see the Department waste any more on bureaucracy and red tape, and I am tired of the theft, the fraud, and the abuse that goes on at the Department of Education that robs children of the precious resources they need. Mr. Speaker, we spend $40 million a year on accountants and overseers and auditors to make sure that the money the Department gets does get to the children and the classroom. But it was a car dealer in Hyattsville, Maryland, that found the latest fraud of Department employees defrauding $2 million of the U.S. Department of Education into personal bank accounts. Mr. Speaker, let us get money to the classroom. Let us get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse at the U.S. Department of Education. Let us put children before crime and bureaucracy.”