Lynn C. Woolsey: “the budget and appropriation bills that we pass here in the House are reflective of our values as leaders in this…”

“the budget and appropriation bills that we pass here in the House are reflective of our values as leaders in this country. H.R. 3010 reflects very poorly on this Congress. Four years ago, when we passed the No Child Left Behind Act, we told schools that we wanted them to be accountable for results and that we would provide them with the resources necessary to achieve these results. Today, we know that the President and the Republican Congress have utterly failed to keep the bipartisan promise to students, to parents, to teachers, to provide schools with the resources called for by No Child Left Behind. If we pass this bill, we will have shortchanged our Nation's children by more than $40 billion over the past 4 years. This is only one of the many, many, many ways that this bill fails to invest in the American people and their children. And I urge my colleagues to oppose it. {time} 1330”