Jeff Miller: “the previous speaker tried to scare us about what is happening in education, and I just want to set the record straight.…”

“the previous speaker tried to scare us about what is happening in education, and I just want to set the record straight. First of all, the Federal Government only pays 5 percent of the total amount of money in elementary and secondary education. Ninety-five percent of the money comes from State and local governments, and that is where the responsibility belongs, with the family and State and local governments. He talks about title 1. Where are the cuts? Title I has increased 40 percent in the last 7 years, and it is flat funded for this year. There is no cut. The amount of money going for title I stays at $6.7 billion. I rise in strong support of this bill, and I want to talk about something other than the area of education right now, and I want to talk about something that is very, very important, and that is the area of biomedical research. Biomedical research is a fundamental priority that can dramatically improve and change the lives of individual Americans. Therefore, for the second year in a row, we have significantly increased funding at the National Institutes for Health and for the Centers for Disease Control. Another reason, by the way, I am supporting this bill very strongly is we want to eliminate wasteful and duplicative spending programs, and this bill eliminates 39 programs in addition to the 109 programs we eliminated last year. So I support this program because what it is, we set Federal priorities.…”