Dan Miller: “I rise in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman from Hawaii talks about a very fine program, and I…”

“I rise in opposition to the amendment. Mr. Chairman, the gentlewoman from Hawaii talks about a very fine program, and I commend it, but the question is really a question of educational pork and whether we have all of these categorical programs in this particular bill. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] and I will be offering a series of amendments to try to delete a lot of these individual programs. We need to focus our resources in title 1 in chapter 2 without adding on another program, another program, another program. This is a $13 million program. President Clinton in his budget said this program, "provides educational services exclusively to Hawaiian natives despite the availability similar assistance for eligible Hawaiian natives under such formula grant programs as title I, even start, and special education." The Gore Commission even recommended this not be continued. We have to start drawing the line. As we vote on the budget tomorrow and vote on a balanced budget amendment, we are going to have to look at $13 million here and $10 million there. It adds up to real money. So I oppose this not because it is not a good program because I think it is a good program. But I just object to a small categorical program just for one segment of the population.”