Political Quotes

“I represent several school districts in my district back in Illinois which receive section 8002 funds, and I am very concerned that an amendment, or the amendment that was affixed to this bill in the Senate would essentially provide that a large portion of new funding... would go to one particular school district in 1997, and, more importantly, every fiscal year thereafter. That does concern me, because, of course, there are a lot of districts throughout this country who are not getting full funding as it is right now, and if all future increases in appropriations were to be subject to this amendment, I think I would have to object. I would request... that we revisit this issue at a later date, with the understanding that an adjustment would be made so that the changes in the distribution formula are not in effect for every increase in appropriations for future fiscal years, but would be basically in effect only for the fiscal year that we are dealing with, fiscal year 1997, and not for future fiscal years. That is the deep concern I have.”