Political Quotes

“I am a strong believer this is something we really should have done a long time ago at the Federal government level. It is something we should make the commitment to do now because we have to make up for lost time, and it really does free up other opportunities with respect to local and State spending. We need to understand that we at the Federal Government level only supply about 6 or 7 percent of all of the funding of education in this country. But every now and then, we mandate something. We have done that with children with disabilities. We have said that we have got to educate. The Supreme Court has come along and said, not only do we have to educate, but we have to provide some health services as well. This is extraordinarily expensive on a local basis; and as a result, we have an obligation, I think, to stand up and to do something about it. So for all these reasons, I rise in support of the legislation and what the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Chairman Goodling) is doing.”