James M. Jeffords: “I would like to follow up to some degree the comments of the Senator from Arkansas on what the status of the law is and…”

“I would like to follow up to some degree the comments of the Senator from Arkansas on what the status of the law is and also raise the awareness of my colleagues as to what could be the disaster of this amendment to a local school district, because I think it is incredibly important that we understand exactly what this amendment could do. First of all, I point out the wording of the Helms amendment--and I will be supporting the Danforth amendment--``No funds made available through the Department of Education under this act, or any other act, shall be available to any State or local educational agency which,'' and it goes on. I want to make sure you understand what is at risk here. It is not the funds under this act, which are rather small. It is not the funds of the acts of those things that go through the Department of Education, but it is all Federal funds that go to a local educational agency.”