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Joe Scarborough: I think one of the finest examples of how Americans' dollars, tax dollars, come up to Washington, DC to these huge…

On the recordFebruary 27, 1997
I think one of the finest examples of how Americans' dollars, tax dollars, come up to Washington, DC to these huge Federal bureaucracies and do not get back home is the example of the Department of Education who 2 years ago said that they had to cut their budget by $100 billion to keep schools across the country safe from caving in and collapsing. But in that same budget where they cut $100 million from the safe schools part of the program, they added $20 million just to improve their single bureaucracy building on Independence Avenue. So here we have an example not of robbing Peter to pay Paul, but an example of the Federal bureaucratic machine robbing our children to feed bureaucracy instead of doing what needs to be done in education. I applaud the gentleman for actually having the courage to stand up and say enough is enough to this nonsense, and I thank the gentleman for yielding.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Discussing budget cuts and inefficiencies in the Department of Education.

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