Jack Kingston: “as I went back through the Congressional Record and looked at what the Democrats had to say about this bill last year…”

“as I went back through the Congressional Record and looked at what the Democrats had to say about this bill last year, it was just absolutely ridiculous, offbase political rhetoric, just like we are hearing this year: war on children, mindless, mean- spirited package. It is the same old thing. The Democrats want to smoke but they do not want to inhale. They want to cut the budget but not here, not this bill, not now, not this group. The fact is, my Democrat friends, that money is not always the solution. Just one particular case, one small example: Since 1970 per- student spending in America has increased from $4,000 to $7,000 per student. Yet during that same period of time SAT scores have fallen from 937 points in 1972 to 902 points in 1994. Money, money, money is not always the answer. So let us try to put our investments in programs that work, cut out the Washington bureaucracy, empower the people back home, and pass this bill.”