George Miller: “It is unfortunate that once again we yet have to again extend the time for the budget to be completed for this country.…”

“It is unfortunate that once again we yet have to again extend the time for the budget to be completed for this country. It is unfortunate because we come down to an item that is so terribly important to America's families and to America's children, and, that is, the issue of school construction, whether or not we are going to try to end the process by which children are being educated in storage rooms, in split-up gymnasiums, on the stage of the school auditorium, in the janitor's change rooms as they try to reduce class sizes and as they try to avoid those parts of schools in many cases that are unsafe for children to go. We think that the Federal Government ought to help these school districts. They can do it by providing no-interest loans or low-interest loans to help those school districts that are struggling to provide for safe and healthy schools for our children. The other one is class size reduction. Here we have an opportunity to take a program modeled after Cops on the Beat, a program that has been incredibly successful.”