ANNE M. NORTHUP

What I would say is that there are different ways for different people to influence elections. The fact is, soft money, I believe, is a very good form of support for our parties. If GE gives $100,000 to the Republican Party, whatever…

Mr. Chairman, we do not put nonseverability because those of us that voted for that tax cut believed each one of those cuts stood on their own merit, had a merit of their own. For those of us that are asking for support for the…

The problem is that whole school reform only works if there are the liberties to truly reform it. As my colleagues know, if a school says we would like to apply for this $50,000 grant and they get it, but the State does not allow the…

I rise today to engage the gentleman from Virginia in a colloquy related to something important for Louisville, KY. In 1994 the Federal Aviation Administration advised Congress that they would reimburse the Standiford Field in Louisville…

I certainly understand too, as my children have started on their own, each one of them, they feel so poor, they feel so vulnerable. They go to work every day, and there is never enough money. My husband and I have depended on them to be…

I would just like to challenge the Department of Education and the President to rethink their proposal. Since they believe that schools construction is so important, since they believe the need is so great that we cannot afford it, I am…

The best way to build a school for our children is for each school district to do it as they do it right now. They say, what do we need? We need this many classrooms, we need these certain specifications, and they put it out for an open…

I want to just remind you though that even though North Carolina may not incur the higher school costs and may not borrow out of this $5 billion, this $5 billion represents the tax dollars they have paid to Washington, and they are just…

It is important, and it is important because I think the American people would be interested in how their tax dollars are spent. What the Federal Government says is that any school that is built with a dollar of Federal money, that certain…

I think it goes back to the theme, Mr. Speaker, that the gentleman talked about, about why spend more of our tax dollars if we cannot make effective the tax dollars we already spend on education. Mr. Speaker, I believe that Americans are…

I would. I have been very interested in education myself as a mother of six children, as a member of the Kentucky State legislature, on the education and the Committee on Appropriations. I have had a long-standing involvement with the…