Political Quotes

“I do want to join him in support of what he is trying to do here and what he has been trying to do for many, many years. He deserves a great deal of congratulations on this. The chart that the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling) has next to him, which shows the percentage funded at about 10 percent now, it has been as high as 12 percent, I believe, when it should be 40 percent. It shows that big gap. That big gap basically is an area that should be filled with Federal dollars and if it is, as has been stated here so well, then we would free up the local dollars to do the very things that we are talking about in Washington and that they are talking about at the States and the local school districts, to hire more teachers in order to get smaller classrooms, to fix up our schools, to move in to the world of technology in the fastest and best way possible and to do all the other things we have to do in education. I did see this on a local level. Basically, the Federal Government has come along with the courts and they have stated that all States must provide a free and appropriate education to disabled children.”