Judd Gregg

As the Senator from Iowa well knows, this bill does not eliminate any programs. As the Senator from Iowa well knows, this bill sets a number, a gross number, that we will spend on education. However, what the Senator from Iowa doesn't…

In the Head Start and early education programs, we have increased those by 800 percent--800 percent--in the last decade. In this budget, we have a significant increase in Head Start. In fact, we are putting so much money into Head Start…

The COPS Program was designed to put 100,000 new police officers on the street. We have, in fact, put 110,000 new police officers on the street. In addition, the program has been replaced in large part by the huge amount of increases that…

This amendment represents another significant increase in IDEA funding. It represents a $3.2 billion increase over the next 2 years, which will mean that the total increase in IDEA funding over the next 2 years will be approximately $6.7…

Over the last 4 years, especially over the last 2 years President Bush has been in office, there has been a dramatic increase in IDEA funding. In fact, we have increased IDEA funding by almost 173 percent. Last year, we added $1 billion…

The committee included these funds in the National Marine Fisheries Service account to, in part, further oyster restoration and replenishment efforts in the Chesapeake Bay. It is the committee's expectation that NOAA will use the sums…

I ask the Senator from Utah, didn't Mr. Estrada come to the United States without speaking any English when he was a teenager?

I appreciate the Senators' interest in this area, and I believe we should work to pass legislation to provide appropriate compensation. I have scheduled a hearing in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for next week that I…

Although we cannot amend the report at this point, I would urge the EDA to evaluate the Providence Performing Arts Center project along with the other projects listed in the committee report. The project should be given every consideration…

In fact, the proposal to renovate and operate a vibrant theater appears to be just the type of job-creating project EDA should be encouraging in our downtowns.

First off, let's remember we have dramatically increased the money in this bill by $2 billion which is going back to the local police forces in this country. That is $2 billion. The Byrne program is a good program, but it is a program that…

Is it not only the tradition but the legally appropriate action that in a constitutional democracy, where there are two major parties, when a majority takes control of a body within that constitutional democracy, the committees be chaired…