Paul Coverdell

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

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…

My 10-year figure would be about $1.1 billion. Let's take the 5 years. In 5 years, it is $500 million in tax relief for 14 million middle-income families on the education savings account and over 5 years, over $3 billion of tax relief for…

I want to reiterate that what we are talking about helps 14 million families who are the carekeepers of over 20 million schoolchildren. And every school environment is helped--public, private, and home. Our proposal will aid 1 million…

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?

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…

first, the Labor Committee has already addressed the issue of new teachers and done it in a more expeditious manner focusing new teachers on inner-city schools. Second, the effect of the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts is to…

I believe, as I said, this proposal moves to failure. A State that has met its responsibilities and kept schools up to the level they should be doesn't meet the criteria in the amendment for the funding. The second point, and probably for…

first, I have the utmost respect for my good colleague from Virginia, but I do want to correct one statement that he made. He said that the underlying bill provides no provisions for school construction. That is not accurate. The…

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…

again, I am puzzled by the vociferous opposition of the Senator from Massachusetts to an education savings account. I repeat what I said a moment ago when I was responding to the Senator from Ohio. The education savings account that we are…

First, I want to come back, as I probably will have to do all week long, to respond to the characterization of the nature of the education savings account that is a title--one piece--of the bill that is before the Senate. The Senator from…

amendment No. 2262, parallels the House-passed resolution passed unanimously this week that Congress set aside money for Black Hawks--$36 million. In last year's foreign operations spending bill the President signed this provision into…

at another time, I had the distinct honor to serve a former President as Director of the U.S. Peace Corps. In that capacity, and due to the time of the watch, I had the opportunity to see the faces of people who had never been free or who…

my amendment is the middle-class tax relief proposal. It calls on the Government to cut nondefense discretionary spending by 6.9 percent over the next 5 years. It would return discretionary spending to a level of 1996. That does not seem…

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…

As everybody knows by now all too well, we have been in the midst of a filibuster going all the way back to last summer on education reform proposals. We have been battling the White House, the minority leadership and the status quo. I am…

If this filibuster continues, I just want to point out that about 14 million American families will be denied the opportunity to establish savings accounts that will help some 20 million children, that 70 percent of those families will be…

I appreciate the efforts of both leaders. But the point is, we are still in a filibuster. When this proposal was in the tax relief bill last year, the President said he would veto the entire tax relief bill if this education savings…

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…

what we have before us is a resolution that has special standing on the floor. It is a resolution that will take the certification that the President has called for in the case of Mexico's fully cooperating with the United States on the…

I think a better question is, where did it begin? Let us remember that this is the fourth filibuster. This all comes from a proposal that was passed by the Senate with 59 votes--overwhelmingly--and the President of the United States told…

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…

earlier this afternoon, the Senator from Massachusetts and the Senator from Connecticut were debating their opposition to the education savings account that we have been struggling with since last July. The essence of their argument is…