Cleo Fields: “Goals 2000 last year we appropriated $371 million. This year we took away $142 million. Louisiana, my State, will lose…”

“Goals 2000 last year we appropriated $371 million. This year we took away $142 million. Louisiana, my State, will lose $8,200,000, money that is needed to develop our educational system. School improvement programs last year we appropriated $320 million. This year we took away $60 million. How would it affect my own State? Seven million dollars the State will receive, $1.3 million will be rescinded from the State. Education for the disadvantaged, we appropriated in this Congress $6.7 billion. We took away $105 million. Louisiana will lose $2.9 million as a result of this recisioin package. What about education for the homeless, children, and youth? We are supposed to be family friendly. We appropriated last Congress $28 million. How much did we appropriate this year? Zero. We took it all back. These are no monies for 1996. These are monies that we committed for 1995. We just zeroed the budget. How would it affect my State? Seven hundred ninety-five thousand dollars in my State, gone. Do we have a children and youth problem and homeless problem in our State? Yes. Tech prep, I have received more faxes from people across my district about this program. Vocational and adult education program, Federal funding, we funded for 1995 $108 million. In this recision package we took each and every dollar away from that program, $108 million rescinded. In my State $2.2 million, gone. Every student can't go to college. Every student--some students just don't want to go to college.”