On the recordMay 3, 2001
Through all the years, while we may have had disagreements on one little aspect of this, I have found generally on both sides of the aisle a lot of goodwill to try to reach some consensus on how we fulfill the constitutional mandate of providing our kids with disabilities a free and appropriate public education. We have, indeed, come a long way since I first came here in 1975, with the passage of IDEA, then, later on, the Americans with Disabilities Act, early intervention programs and now, finally, the fulfillment of the promise we made 26 years ago that the Federal Government would provide the lion's share of funding to our States and local school districts so our constitutional mandate could be fulfilled. I yield the floor.
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