Katie Porter: “I want to make one further point when we talk about bureaucracies. The gentleman from Indiana has made a point about…”

“I want to make one further point when we talk about bureaucracies. The gentleman from Indiana has made a point about taking money from Washington bureaucracies and giving it to local school districts. There are bureaucracies in Washington, and there are bureaucracies also in many of our local school systems. I need only to point out that before the Illinois General Assembly gave Mayor Daley of Chicago control over the Chicago schools, 1/2 years ago, one of the biggest bureaucracies anywhere in existence was the Chicago School Board. It was packed with patronage workers and certainly did not need any more relief when compared with the Wage and Hour Enforcement Division. In other words, there are bureaucracies, if they exist, not only in Washington but out in local school districts in many of our big cities; there is not any doubt about that. To say that we are simply going to punish bureaucrats and give this money for the education of handicapped kids is not quite accurate in many instances.”