Paul Coverdell

I suspect this most recent cloture motion has the potential of engendering some controversy. It puts into rather tenuous circumstances the amendment we are discussing, because if we cannot vote--if cloture were secured, this amendment…

One more comment. There are still donor States, so there is in this agreement a recognition of special circumstances, distances, rural areas, or other infrastructures. There is still a subsidy that occurs, some of it legitimate.

In essence, I was asking if the conference report--the floor was 90, so that although South Carolina was getting 71 cents back and Georgia 74, we could expect, if this were to pass, 90.5 cents?

With regard to this question of donor States, the two States that were the most--if that is a standard, legitimate standard-- the two States that received the weakest return were South Carolina and Georgia. It is my understanding that the…

Let me simply say that the incongruity cannot be more clear that the agency says it doesn't do random audits; yet, if they are prohibited, it would cost a billion dollars a year. We have a problem we have to iron out here. As I said, GAO…

Yes, the Senator from Alabama is correct. Under current law, private colleges are at a distinct disadvantage to their public counterparts.

Those are the same income levels as set in the IRA for higher education which has been celebrated by both parties and the President.

I did think that was a philosophical problem, but I think the more important issue that the Senator raises is this layering and layering and layering. We are struggling with that in every component of the Government. I don't know how many…

I am using the 10-year figure. The figure you used is correct for the first 5 years.

If we are in a national debate about the condition of elementary and secondary education, would one be nervous, given the forces that want to protect the status quo, that testing could be designed to protect the condition we are in?

No county school board had to raise taxes, no State had to raise income taxes, no Federal taxes were required to accomplish a $10 billion resource coming to the aid of children throughout all of our country. So this, among the other…

We have just spent over an hour discussing a real bullet that is not a sense of the Senate, it is a real bullet that would free up over $10 billion to local schools to take care of whatever issue they have. If it is like the Senator from…

I did want to take a minute or two to reiterate that the proposal currently before the body that is authored by myself on this side of the aisle, and Senator Torricelli on their side of the aisle, is a bipartisan effort to bring about…

I might add that one of the functional components of American liberty was and remains the right of workers to have their resources come to them so they can live out their dreams and their lives. We have changed this over the years. I…

This is the fourth filibuster on this proposal. When this measure came before the Senate last year, we were told that it was a pretty good idea but it needed to go through the process. It has now been through the Finance Committee. It now…

Expanded employer-provided educational assistance. That is a tax relief to employers who help their employees expand their education. And the Joint Tax Committee says 1 million American workers will benefit from that. Senator Graham from…

If the Senator will yield, I believe the majority leader has properly characterized what the discussions have been between both leaders. The majority leader has said the other side can offer its package, which could include Senator…

The accounts can be used from kindergarten through college, and post college, if the student is suffering from a disability and has an ongoing educational requirement. So it is a full life of education as we know it in America.

In fact, my assertion is that public school children attending public schools would be the principal beneficiaries. Seventy percent, according to the Joint Tax Committee, of families--that is about, incidentally, 7 to 10 million of…

I want to acknowledge one of the most eloquent statements we have heard about education savings accounts that has just been given to us by Senator Torricelli. I particularly applaud his reflection on the caste system that we are in danger…

I have enjoyed the remarks by those on the other side of the aisle on behalf of Senator Ford of Kentucky. And indeed, he has been a very large figure here in the U.S. Senate for many, many years. It is very appropriate that he has been…

My last question--and the Senator has already hit on the point--and that is, if you will read some of the material from the opponents, you will think this is legislation exclusively designed to deal with private schools. As the Senator…

The purpose of these two joint resolutions is to alter the course of our engagement in the drug war, principally as it relates to Mexico. Instead of certifying and saying, ``Here is a message of victory to the two peoples of the two…

The Senator from Arkansas was here yesterday and gave a very inspiring commentary on his legislation to improve American education, but he has matched yesterday. Those were remarkable words, and the personal feeling in connection with the…

I will never forget the faces of those people who had never been free or had not been for so long they couldn't remember. Do you know what struck me? This is before the freedom had hit. I never saw a single adult ever smile. Never, not…