Jerry Moran: “I served for 8 years in the Kansas legislature before being elected to Congress. During that 8-year period of time, it…”

“I served for 8 years in the Kansas legislature before being elected to Congress. During that 8-year period of time, it became clear to me that the consequences of the Federal Government's failure to fund special education were dramatic and significant upon the taxpayers of the State of Kansas, upon our school system, and most importantly upon the students. So it is with pleasure that, upon arriving in Congress, I discovered there was a group of individuals, including the chairman and the ranking member, who were willing and interested in this topic, that cared about the quality of education across the country, and were willing to assist in allowing the Federal Government to at least now gradually meet that mandate. Had the special education funding mandate by the Federal Government been fully funded as promised in 1975, the $75 million that we were struggling to try to find in Kansas would have been there. In fact, it would have been there in double. We would receive about an additional $143 million.”