On the recordOctober 28, 1997
I do not know how often we have said it in committee, and we are repeating it again on the floor: the U.S. Department of Education spends only 2 percent of the total funding for education on its administration. So I do not understand this accusation of this huge bureaucracy consuming the money that belongs to the classrooms and to the school districts. The statistics are there, the studies have been made, and CRS reports all indicate that the figures given by the U.S. Department of Education are correct, only 2 percent. I also want to call to the attention of the House that in the various legislation that we have passed we have also stipulated not only limitation on Federal bureaucracy or Federal administrative costs, but we have put caps on the State administrative costs.
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